Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Manutius

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Bible

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

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.

10.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

12.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

14.

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

Enrico Fermi

15.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

16.

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

17.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

18.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

19.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

20.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

21.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

22.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

23.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

24.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

26.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

28.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

29.

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

Stoppard, Tom

30.

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

Van Horne, William

31.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

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

Billings, Josh

34.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

35.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

37.

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

38.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

39.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

40.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

41.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

42.

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''

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

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

45.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

46.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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

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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

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

Moliere