Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Sophocles

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)

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

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

Socrates

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

Manutius

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

10.

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

11.

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

Everett, Douglas

12.

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)

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

15.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

16.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

17.

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

Fink, David Harold

18.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

21.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

22.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

23.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Miller, Henry

26.

'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

27.

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

Channing, William Ellery

28.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

30.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

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

33.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

34.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

35.

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

Degas, Edgar

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Smiles, Sydney

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

41.

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

Richard Feynman

42.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

43.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

44.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

45.

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

Morrison, Jim

46.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

47.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

50.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles