Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lao-tzu

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

12.

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

Socrates

13.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

14.

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

Szasz, Thomas

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

17.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

18.

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.

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

21.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

24.

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

25.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

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

Bible

29.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

30.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

31.

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

32.

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

Traherne, Thomas

33.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

34.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Everett, Douglas

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

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.

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.