Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

'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

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

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

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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

Cowper, William

10.

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.

11.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

13.

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

Bernard, Claude

14.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

15.

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

Socrates

16.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

17.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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''

21.

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

Proverb, Persian

22.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

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

Sterne, Laurence

24.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

25.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

26.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Van Horne, William

28.

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

29.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

30.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Channing, William Ellery

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

39.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

42.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

43.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

44.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

45.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

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

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.