Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bible

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

Hall, Bishop

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Manutius

10.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

14.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.

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.

16.

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

Margaret Fuller

17.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

18.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

22.

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

Robert, Cavett

23.

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.

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

27.

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

Proverb, Persian

28.

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

29.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

34.

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

Degas, Edgar

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Socrates

37.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

38.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

39.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

40.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

41.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

42.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

43.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

44.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

45.

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

46.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

47.

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

48.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

49.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

50.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo