Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Miller, Keith

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

Pickering

2.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

5.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

6.

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

Haskins, Caryl

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

9.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

12.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

13.

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

Robbins, Anthony

14.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

15.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

18.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

19.

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

20.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

21.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Cowper, William

26.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

27.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Manutius

29.

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)

30.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

31.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

32.

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

Bernard, Claude

33.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

35.

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

Traherne, Thomas

36.

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.

37.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

38.

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

Miller, Keith

39.

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

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

41.

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

Margaret Fuller

42.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

43.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

44.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

45.

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

46.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

47.

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

48.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

49.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.