Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lao-tzu

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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)

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Swinnock

13.

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

14.

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

Pickering

15.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

16.

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

Back, Sudie

17.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

18.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

19.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

20.

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

Confucius

21.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

24.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

30.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

37.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

38.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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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

43.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

45.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

48.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

49.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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