Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

I know myself, but that is all.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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

Back, Sudie

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Milton, John

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Samuel Johnson

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

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

Stevens, Ray

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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

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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

17.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

20.

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

Hall, Bishop

21.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

22.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

Mill, John Stuart

26.

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

Moliere

27.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

28.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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.

36.

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

Bernard, Claude

37.

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

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

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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

39.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

44.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

45.

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

Margaret Fuller

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

Chesterfield, Lord