Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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.

2.

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

Benchley, Robert

3.

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

Cowper, William

4.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Smiles, Samuel

7.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

8.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

9.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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)

11.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

12.

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

Stoppard, Tom

13.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Caine, Mark

17.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

18.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

19.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

Starr, Lonny

23.

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

Szasz, Thomas

24.

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

25.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

26.

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

Markham, Beryl

27.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

28.

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.

29.

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

Traherne, Thomas

30.

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

Kuehler, Jack

31.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

32.

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

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

37.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

38.

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

Manutius

39.

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

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

42.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

43.

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

44.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Haskins, Caryl

46.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Persian

49.

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

50.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

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