Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

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

Epictetus

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Channing, William Ellery

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morrison, Jim

10.

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

Sterne, Laurence

11.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

12.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

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

15.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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''

19.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

20.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

21.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

22.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

23.

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

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

25.

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

Socrates

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hall, Bishop

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

31.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

33.

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

34.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

36.

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

Everett, Douglas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

40.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

41.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Saying

46.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

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

48.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

49.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

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