Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

4.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

6.

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

Haskins, Caryl

7.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

8.

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

Hall, Bishop

9.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

10.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

11.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

12.

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

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

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

Penn, William

17.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Bible

20.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

21.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Enrico Fermi

25.

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

26.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

27.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

28.

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

Getty, J. Paul

29.

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.

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

34.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

35.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

36.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Socrates

38.

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

40.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

41.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

42.

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

43.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

45.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

46.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu