Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mueller, Robert K.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Traherne, Thomas

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

13.

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

Bernard, Claude

14.

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

15.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Smiles, Sydney

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

Caine, Mark

19.

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

Moliere

20.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

21.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

24.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

27.

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

Ball, Lucille

28.

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

Proverb, Persian

29.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

30.

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

Starr, Lonny

31.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

32.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

38.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

40.

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

Getty, J. Paul

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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

Fischer, Martin H.