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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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

Benchley, Robert

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

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Socrates

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

10.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

15.

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.

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

17.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

18.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

20.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

21.

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

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

24.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Margaret Fuller

30.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

31.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

32.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

33.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

34.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

35.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

36.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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.

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''

40.

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

41.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

42.

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

Szasz, Thomas

43.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

45.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

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

Haskins, Caryl

47.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

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

Socrates

49.

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

50.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.