Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Moliere

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Penn, William

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Back, Sudie

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

Szasz, Thomas

10.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

14.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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

Miller, Keith

17.

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

Pickering

18.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

19.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

20.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

21.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

22.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

Smiles, Sydney

25.

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.

26.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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

30.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

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

35.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

37.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

39.

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

40.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

Proverb, Persian

42.

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

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.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

48.

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

Morrison, Jim

49.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi