Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

2.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

3.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

Robbins, Anthony

5.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

6.

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

Whitney, W. R.

7.

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

Moliere

8.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

9.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

10.

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

Szasz, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

13.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

16.

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

Stoppard, Tom

17.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

19.

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

Proverb, Persian

20.

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.

21.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

22.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

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.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

29.

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

30.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Samuel Johnson

33.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

34.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

'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

37.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

40.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

41.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

44.

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

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

47.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

49.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

50.

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

Ralph, Blum