Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Milton, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

11.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

15.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

16.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

18.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

19.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

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.

21.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

22.

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.

23.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

Keller, Helen

25.

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

26.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

30.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

33.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

34.

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

35.

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

36.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

38.

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

Degas, Edgar

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

41.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

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

43.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

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

Haskins, Caryl

45.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

46.

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