Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Who knows most believes least.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

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

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

10.

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.

11.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

12.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

13.

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

14.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

Ball, Lucille

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Pickering

18.

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

Smiles, Sydney

19.

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

20.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

21.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

22.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

23.

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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Haskins, Caryl

28.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

29.

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

30.

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

31.

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

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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.

33.

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

34.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

35.

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

Comte, Auguste

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Whitney, W. R.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

42.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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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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

45.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

46.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

47.

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''

48.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

49.

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

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George