Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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

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

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

10.

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

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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''

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

14.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

15.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

16.

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

17.

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

Benchley, Robert

18.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

19.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

20.

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

Markham, Beryl

21.

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

22.

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

Bernard, Claude

23.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

24.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

25.

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

26.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

27.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

28.

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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.

30.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

31.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

32.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Pickering

39.

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

Sterne, Laurence

40.

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

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

43.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

46.

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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Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

48.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles