Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

- Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

11.

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.

12.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

13.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

14.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

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

Smiles, Samuel

16.

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

Kuehler, Jack

17.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

20.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

21.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

24.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

25.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Milton, John

29.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

32.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

33.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

34.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

35.

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

Samuel Johnson

36.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Denham, Sir John

40.

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

Pickering

41.

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

Manutius

42.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

43.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

44.

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

Degas, Edgar

45.

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

Socrates

46.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

47.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

48.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

49.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark