Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Morrison, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sophocles

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

Caine, Mark

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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.

12.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

13.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

17.

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

18.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

19.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

21.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

22.

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

Moliere

23.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

24.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

25.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

Denham, Sir John

28.

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

Addison, Joseph

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

31.

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

Pickering

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

34.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

38.

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

39.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

40.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

41.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

42.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

43.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

44.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Smiles, Sydney

47.

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

Ralph, Blum

48.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

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

50.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell