Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Stoppard, Tom

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Robert, Cavett

13.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

18.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

24.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

25.

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

Degas, Edgar

26.

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

Bailey, Pearl

27.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

28.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

29.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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.

31.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

32.

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

33.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

35.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

36.

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

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

43.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

44.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

46.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

47.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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