Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bernard, Claude

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bible

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.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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

Pickering

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

Socrates

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Bible

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

Mueller, Robert K.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

15.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

17.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

18.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

22.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

23.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

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)

27.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

28.

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

Socrates

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Getty, J. Paul

31.

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

32.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

35.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

36.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

38.

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

39.

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

Moliere

40.

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

Markham, Beryl

41.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Morrison, Jim

43.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

44.

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

45.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

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''

47.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

48.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

49.

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

Degas, Edgar

50.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell