Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Edison, Thomas A.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Getty, J. Paul

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

14.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

15.

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

16.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

17.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

22.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

23.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

24.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

28.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

29.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Addison, Joseph

33.

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

Miller, Keith

34.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

36.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

39.

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

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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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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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.

43.

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

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

Castaneda, Carlos

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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''

49.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.