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

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

Fink, David Harold

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

16.

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

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

19.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

24.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

Van Horne, William

25.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

26.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

27.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

28.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

29.

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.

30.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

31.

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

32.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

34.

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

Everett, Douglas

35.

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

36.

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

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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)

38.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

40.

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

Caine, Mark

41.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

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

Fischer, Martin H.

45.

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

Sophocles

46.

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

47.

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

Mueller, Robert K.