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

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Fink, David Harold

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

10.

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

11.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

12.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

13.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

16.

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

Bright, Grant M.

17.

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.

18.

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

Moliere

19.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

20.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

21.

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

22.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

23.

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

Getty, J. Paul

24.

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

25.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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)

27.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Socrates

29.

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

Ralph, Blum

30.

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

Robert, Cavett

31.

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

Cowper, William

32.

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

Enrico Fermi

33.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Penn, William

39.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

40.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

41.

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

42.

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

Degas, Edgar

43.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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.

46.

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

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

Socrates

48.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

49.

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