Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

Confucius

2.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Margaret Fuller

5.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

6.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

7.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

8.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

9.

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

10.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

11.

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

Milton, John

12.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

13.

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

Socrates

14.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

15.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

16.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

17.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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.

21.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

25.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Bright, Grant M.

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

30.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

31.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

32.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

33.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

34.

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

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

38.

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

Saying

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

42.

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''

43.

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.

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

46.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

48.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

49.

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

50.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille