Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bible

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

Degas, Edgar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Billings, Josh

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''

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

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Milton, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

14.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Hall, Bishop

16.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

17.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

24.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

25.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Margaret Fuller

28.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

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

Proverb, Persian

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

35.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

36.

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

Samuel Johnson

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

40.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

41.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Lao-tzu

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

46.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

48.

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

49.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

50.

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