Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Caine, Mark

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Pickering

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

11.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

12.

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

13.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

15.

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

Markham, Beryl

16.

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

17.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

18.

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

Addison, Joseph

19.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

20.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

22.

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

Stoppard, Tom

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

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.

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

Benchley, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Persian

30.

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

31.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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.

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

34.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

37.

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

Sophocles

38.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Enrico Fermi

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Bright, Grant M.

43.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

44.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

45.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

46.

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

Moliere

47.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

49.

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''