Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Enrico Fermi

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

12.

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

13.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

14.

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

Socrates

15.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

16.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

19.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

21.

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

Mill, John Stuart

22.

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

23.

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

Bright, Grant M.

24.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

26.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

27.

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

28.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

29.

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

30.

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

31.

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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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

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

34.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

35.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

36.

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

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

41.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Smiles, Sydney

44.

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

Benchley, Robert

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

49.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

50.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats