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

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

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

10.

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

11.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

14.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Confucius

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

Pickering

20.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

21.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

22.

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

Back, Sudie

23.

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

Mill, John Stuart

24.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

27.

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

Starr, Lonny

28.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

29.

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''

30.

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

Smiles, Sydney

31.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

32.

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

33.

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

Cowper, William

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Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

35.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

36.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

37.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

39.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

40.

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

Denham, Sir John

41.

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

42.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

47.

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

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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

49.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

50.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony