Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Bright, Grant M.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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

Bernard, Claude

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Milton, John

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

15.

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

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

22.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

23.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Socrates

25.

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

26.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

29.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

30.

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.

31.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

32.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

33.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

34.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

35.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

36.

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

Michener, James A.

37.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

39.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

47.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.