Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

2.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

10.

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

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

Starr, Lonny

13.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

14.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

15.

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

16.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Moliere

22.

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

Fink, David Harold

23.

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.

24.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

25.

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

Proverb, Persian

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

27.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

28.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

29.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

32.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

33.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Stoppard, Tom

35.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

37.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

40.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

41.

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

Markham, Beryl

42.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

43.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

44.

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

Ralph, Blum

45.

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

46.

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

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

Smiles, Samuel

48.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

49.

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

50.

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