Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

2.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

3.

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

Kuehler, Jack

4.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

5.

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.

6.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

7.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

8.

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

Saying

9.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Bible

12.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

14.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

15.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

17.

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

18.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

19.

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

Bailey, Pearl

20.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

23.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

24.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

26.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

27.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

30.

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

Pickering

31.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

34.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

35.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

37.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Proverb, Persian

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Addison, Joseph

44.

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

Back, Sudie

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

48.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

49.

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

Sterne, Laurence

50.

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