Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Robbins, Anthony

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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

Billings, Josh

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

Traherne, Thomas

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.

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

Pickering

10.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

11.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

15.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

16.

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

Szasz, Thomas

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Denham, Sir John

19.

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

20.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

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

Bible

23.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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.

25.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

26.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

27.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Swinnock

29.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

30.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

31.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Samuel Johnson

34.

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

35.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

41.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

42.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

43.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

44.

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

Comte, Auguste

45.

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

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

48.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.