Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Socrates

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Margaret Fuller

10.

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

11.

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

Hall, Bishop

12.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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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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

15.

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

Robert, Cavett

16.

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

Pickering

17.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Penn, William

19.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

20.

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

21.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

22.

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

Back, Sudie

23.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

25.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Confucius

29.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

32.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

33.

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

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

Sterne, Laurence

35.

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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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

37.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

49.

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

Ralph, Blum

50.

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