Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Denham, Sir John

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Socrates

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

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

Cowper, William

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.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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)

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

33.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

34.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Miller, Keith

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.