Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bible

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Moliere

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

10.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

11.

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

12.

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

Denham, Sir John

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

15.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

16.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

17.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

18.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

19.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

20.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

21.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

22.

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

Caine, Mark

23.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

24.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

32.

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

33.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

35.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

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

Channing, William Ellery

39.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

40.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

41.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

42.

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

Billings, Josh

43.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

44.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

47.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

48.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

49.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

50.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart