Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Smiles, Sydney

11.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

12.

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

Michener, James A.

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

18.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

19.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

21.

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

Kuehler, Jack

22.

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

23.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Haskins, Caryl

27.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

29.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

30.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

31.

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

32.

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

Penn, William

33.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

34.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

35.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

36.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

37.

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

Ball, Lucille

38.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

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

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Stoppard, Tom

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

45.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

46.

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

Bailey, Pearl

47.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

50.

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