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

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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

Caine, Mark

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

Robert, Cavett

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Stoppard, Tom

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

11.

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

12.

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

Milton, John

13.

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

Bristol, Claude M.

14.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Confucius

19.

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

Degas, Edgar

20.

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

Bailey, Pearl

21.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

22.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

23.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Miller, Henry

25.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

29.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

30.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

31.

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

Sterne, Laurence

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

39.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

Moliere

42.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

43.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

44.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

45.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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