Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

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

Samuel Johnson

4.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

5.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

8.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

9.

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

10.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

11.

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

12.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

Margaret Fuller

15.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

16.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

21.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Sophocles

28.

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

29.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

30.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

31.

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

32.

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

Stoppard, Tom

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

36.

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

Socrates

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

39.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

42.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

43.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.