Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bible

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Margaret Fuller

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Miller, Henry

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

Haskins, Caryl

12.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

13.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

14.

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

Socrates

15.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

16.

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

17.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

18.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

20.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

22.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

23.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

25.

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

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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)

29.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

30.

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

Starr, Lonny

31.

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

32.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

33.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

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)

36.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

39.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

41.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

42.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

43.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

44.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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''

46.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

47.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

48.

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

49.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Castaneda, Carlos