Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Margaret Fuller

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ralph, Blum

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