Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Billings, Josh

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saying

10.

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.

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

17.

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

Sterne, Laurence

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

20.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

21.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

23.

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

Samuel Johnson

24.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Smiles, Sydney

27.

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

28.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

29.

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

Bailey, Pearl

30.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

31.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

32.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

33.

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

34.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

39.

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

Ralph, Blum

40.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

41.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

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

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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

44.

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

Moliere

45.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

46.

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.