Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

- Brown, Francis Yeats

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

3.

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

Channing, William Ellery

4.

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

Bright, Grant M.

5.

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

Pickering

6.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

9.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

10.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

14.

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

Swinnock

15.

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

Everett, Douglas

16.

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

Morrison, Jim

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

19.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

20.

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

21.

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

Confucius

22.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

23.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

25.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

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

Moliere

27.

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

Addison, Joseph

28.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

29.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

31.

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

32.

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

Bailey, Pearl

33.

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.

34.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

35.

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

Benchley, Robert

36.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

40.

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)

41.

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

Proverb, Persian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

Johnson, Samuel

47.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

48.

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