Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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

Shakespeare, William

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Bible

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

10.

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

11.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

12.

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

Stevens, Ray

13.

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

Getty, J. Paul

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Cowper, William

17.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

18.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

19.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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.

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

Sophocles

23.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

24.

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

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

27.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

28.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Enrico Fermi

31.

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

Penn, William

32.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

33.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

34.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

35.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ralph, Blum

38.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

39.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

40.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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 degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

46.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

49.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John