Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Denham, Sir John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Saying

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Bible

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

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

10.

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

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

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

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

15.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

16.

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

19.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

24.

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

25.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Everett, Douglas

27.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

28.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

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

Degas, Edgar

30.

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

Getty, J. Paul

31.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

32.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

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

Pickering

34.

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''

35.

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

Kempis, Thomas

36.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Milton, John

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

40.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

41.

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

Bible

42.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Hall, Bishop

44.

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

Whitney, W. R.

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

Back, Sudie

47.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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

49.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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

Churchill, Winston