Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Knowledge

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Cowper, William

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

Epictetus

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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)

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

11.

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

Markham, Beryl

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

13.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

14.

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

Stoppard, Tom

15.

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

Back, Sudie

16.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

17.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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)

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Margaret Fuller

22.

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

23.

'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

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Hall, Bishop

26.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

30.

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

Channing, William Ellery

31.

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

Manutius

32.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

42.

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

43.

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

Socrates

44.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Smiles, Samuel

47.

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

48.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

49.

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

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

Morrison, Jim