Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Fink, David Harold

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

2.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

3.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

4.

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

Michener, James A.

5.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

6.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

7.

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.

8.

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

Traherne, Thomas

9.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

11.

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

12.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

13.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

14.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

16.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

17.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

18.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

19.

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

Miller, Henry

20.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

21.

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

Bernard, Claude

22.

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

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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.

26.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

27.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Milton, John

29.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

Bailey, Pearl

32.

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

Moliere

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

37.

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.

38.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

39.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

40.

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

41.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.