Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

11.

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

Markham, Beryl

12.

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

Pickering

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bright, Grant M.

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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

17.

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

Smiles, Samuel

18.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

19.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

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

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

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

Socrates

25.

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

Bernard, Claude

26.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

27.

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)

28.

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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

31.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

32.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

36.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

37.

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

Haskins, Caryl

38.

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

Robert, Cavett

39.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

40.

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

Denham, Sir John

41.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

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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

44.

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.

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Degas, Edgar

50.

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

Bierce, Ambrose