Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Epictetus

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

11.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

12.

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

Fink, David Harold

13.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

14.

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

15.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

17.

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

18.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

20.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

21.

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

Enrico Fermi

22.

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

Caine, Mark

23.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

24.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

25.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Szasz, Thomas

27.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

30.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

31.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Robert, Cavett

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

43.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

44.

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

45.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

46.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

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