Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

- Abbott, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

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

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Churchill, Winston

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Enrico Fermi

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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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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

15.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

16.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

20.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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

Mueller, Robert K.

23.

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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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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

Sophocles

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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I wish I knew what I know now before.