Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

14.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

16.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

17.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

18.

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

Back, Sudie

19.

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

Michener, James A.

20.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

21.

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)

22.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

23.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

26.

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''

27.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

31.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

34.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

35.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

36.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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

38.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Margaret Fuller

42.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Kuehler, Jack

47.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

48.

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.

49.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.