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, 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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Haskins, Caryl

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

16.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

20.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Comte, Auguste

23.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

24.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

Traherne, Thomas

26.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

29.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

30.

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

Confucius

31.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

32.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

33.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

35.

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

36.

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

40.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

41.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

42.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

46.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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