Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

2.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

4.

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

Smiles, Samuel

5.

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.

6.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

8.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

9.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

10.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

11.

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

12.

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

Hall, Bishop

13.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

14.

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

Kuehler, Jack

15.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

16.

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

Ralph, Blum

17.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

18.

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

Everett, Douglas

19.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Sophocles

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

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

Miller, Henry

27.

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

28.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

29.

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

Szasz, Thomas

30.

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

31.

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

32.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

33.

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

34.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

35.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

36.

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

Kennedy, John F.

37.

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

38.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

39.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

40.

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

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Penn, William

43.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

45.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

46.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

47.

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

Michener, James A.

48.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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