Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Haskins, Caryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Szasz, Thomas

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Socrates

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

Bergethon, R. K.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Getty, J. Paul

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

11.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Bernard, Claude

13.

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

14.

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)

15.

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

Margaret Fuller

16.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

17.

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

Haskins, Caryl

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

20.

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

21.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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

23.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

25.

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

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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

27.

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.

28.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

29.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

30.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

Everett, Douglas

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Degas, Edgar

36.

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

Stevens, Ray

37.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

43.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

44.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

45.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

46.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

47.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

48.

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

Manutius

49.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

50.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis