Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Sophocles

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Confucius

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

13.

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

14.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

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

Caine, Mark

17.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Persian

21.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

22.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

24.

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

25.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

27.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

28.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

31.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

35.

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

36.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

37.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

38.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

39.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Lao-tzu

43.

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

Bible

44.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

45.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

46.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

47.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

48.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.