Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

2.

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

Proverb, Spanish

3.

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

Mill, John Stuart

4.

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

Szasz, Thomas

5.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

6.

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

Back, Sudie

7.

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

Van Horne, William

8.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

9.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

10.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Stoppard, Tom

12.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

14.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

19.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

20.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

21.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

22.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

23.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

24.

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

25.

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

Denham, Sir John

26.

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

27.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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.

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Socrates

38.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

39.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

40.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Cowper, William

43.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

44.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

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

Sophocles

46.

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

Proverb, Persian

47.

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

48.

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

Addison, Joseph

49.

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

Bernard, Claude

50.

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

Gibran, Kahlil