Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Bristol, Claude M.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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''

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Johnson, Samuel

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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.

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

15.

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

16.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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.

18.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

19.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

23.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

24.

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

25.

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

Moliere

26.

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

Smiles, Sydney

27.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

28.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

29.

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

30.

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

Confucius

31.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Everett, Douglas

34.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

35.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

36.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

37.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

38.

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

39.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

43.

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

Manutius

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.

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

46.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

47.

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

Markham, Beryl

48.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny