Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mueller, Robert K.

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

Haskins, Caryl

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

Bible

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.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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)

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

11.

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

12.

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

Caine, Mark

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

16.

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

Bernard, Claude

17.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

18.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

19.

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

20.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

22.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

23.

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

Sophocles

24.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

25.

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

Socrates

26.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

28.

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

Fink, David Harold

29.

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

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

32.

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

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

35.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

36.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

37.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

Denham, Sir John

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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.

40.

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

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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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

43.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

44.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

46.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

47.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

48.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

49.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

50.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias