Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

2.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

3.

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

Saying

4.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

5.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

6.

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

7.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

8.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

9.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

15.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Samuel Johnson

18.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

19.

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

Denham, Sir John

20.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

21.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

22.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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''

24.

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

25.

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

Van Horne, William

26.

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

27.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

28.

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

29.

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

Moliere

30.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

33.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

34.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

35.

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

36.

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

Whitney, W. R.

37.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

43.

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

Stevens, Ray

44.

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

45.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

46.

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

Stoppard, Tom

47.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

48.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.