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

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

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

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.

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

Miller, Keith

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

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

Socrates

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

10.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

13.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

14.

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

15.

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

Van Horne, William

16.

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

17.

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

Hall, Bishop

18.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

19.

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

20.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

Bernard, Claude

26.

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

Michener, James A.

27.

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

28.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

29.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

30.

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

Ralph, Blum

31.

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

32.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

33.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

34.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

35.

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

36.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

37.

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''

38.

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

Szasz, Thomas

39.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

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

41.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Socrates

48.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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.