Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Epictetus

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

Ball, Lucille

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

14.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

17.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

18.

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

19.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

20.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Manutius

26.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

27.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

28.

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

29.

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

Haskins, Caryl

30.

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

Bright, Grant M.

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

35.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

37.

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

Socrates

38.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

39.

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

40.

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

Pickering

41.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

44.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

45.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

46.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

49.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Edison, Thomas A.