Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Michener, James A.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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

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

Robert, Cavett

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

Cowper, William

10.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

13.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

14.

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

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

Lao-tzu

16.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

17.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

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

21.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

22.

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

23.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

26.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Ralph, Blum

32.

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

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

Enrico Fermi

34.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

36.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Samuel Johnson

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

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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

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Degas, Edgar

45.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

46.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

47.

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

48.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

49.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Castaneda, Carlos