Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Back, Sudie

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

2.

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

Kempis, Thomas

3.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

4.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

5.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

6.

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

Pickering

7.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

8.

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

9.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

10.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

15.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

16.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

17.

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.

18.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

19.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

20.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

22.

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

23.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

24.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

29.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

Caine, Mark

31.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel