Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

- Ralph, Blum

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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)

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Smiles, Sydney

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

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

Miller, Henry

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

10.

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

11.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

12.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

13.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

16.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

20.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

22.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

28.

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

Markham, Beryl

29.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

30.

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

Caine, Mark

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

32.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

33.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

34.

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

35.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

36.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

38.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

39.

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

Proverb, Persian

40.

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

41.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

42.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

48.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

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