Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

- Toffler, Alvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Penn, William

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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

Bright, Grant M.

10.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

11.

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

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

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

14.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

15.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

16.

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.

17.

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

Moliere

18.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

25.

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

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

Pickering

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

36.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

38.

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

Smiles, Samuel

39.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

40.

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

41.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

43.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

44.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

47.

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

Moliere

48.

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

Socrates

49.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

50.

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

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