Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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.

10.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

11.

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

12.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

13.

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.

14.

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

Pickering

15.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Sterne, Laurence

17.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

18.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Back, Sudie

21.

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.

22.

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

Ralph, Blum

23.

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

Markham, Beryl

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Morrison, Jim

27.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

28.

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

Getty, J. Paul

30.

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

31.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

32.

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

33.

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)

34.

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

35.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

36.

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

Whitney, W. R.

37.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

38.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

39.

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

Ball, Lucille

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

44.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

45.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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.