Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

2.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

3.

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

Szasz, Thomas

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

6.

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

Lao-Tzu

7.

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

Margaret Fuller

8.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Richard Feynman

14.

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

Michener, James A.

15.

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

Smiles, Sydney

16.

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

17.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

19.

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

Moliere

20.

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

21.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

24.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

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

Traherne, Thomas

27.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

28.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

30.

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

Everett, Douglas

31.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

32.

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

Addison, Joseph

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

35.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

36.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

37.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

38.

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

Swinnock

39.

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

Pickering

40.

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

Caine, Mark

41.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

42.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

44.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

45.

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

46.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.