Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston