Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bright, Grant M.

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

Manutius

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

12.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

13.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

17.

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

Robert, Cavett

18.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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

Szasz, Thomas

22.

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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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Confucius

27.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Everett, Douglas

29.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

30.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

31.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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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

33.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

34.

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

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

36.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

37.

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

Degas, Edgar

38.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

39.

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

Getty, J. Paul

40.

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

41.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

43.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

44.

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

Back, Sudie

45.

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

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

48.

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

49.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris