Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

2.

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

Szasz, Thomas

3.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

4.

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

Milton, John

5.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

6.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

7.

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

Stevens, Ray

8.

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

Traherne, Thomas

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

12.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Haskins, Caryl

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Robert, Cavett

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

21.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

23.

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

Pickering

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

26.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Degas, Edgar

30.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

31.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

35.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

Bright, Grant M.

40.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

41.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

42.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

43.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

44.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

45.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

46.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

47.

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

Starr, Lonny

48.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

49.

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

50.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney