Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Richard Feynman

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

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Proverb, Spanish

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

10.

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

11.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

15.

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

16.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

Confucius

18.

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

Cowper, William

19.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

20.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

21.

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

Enrico Fermi

22.

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

23.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

24.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

25.

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.

26.

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

Benchley, Robert

27.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

28.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

32.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

33.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

34.

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.

35.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

36.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

37.

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

38.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

42.

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

Ball, Lucille

43.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

44.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

46.

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

Robbins, Anthony

47.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

48.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

Robert, Cavett

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