Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Mumford, Ethel Watts

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Churchill, Winston

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)

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

Haskins, Caryl

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Moliere

15.

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.

16.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

19.

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

Ball, Lucille

20.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

21.

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''

22.

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

23.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Saying

28.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

29.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

30.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

31.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

38.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

39.

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

40.

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

41.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

42.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

43.

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

Fink, David Harold

44.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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)

49.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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

Bergethon, R. K.