Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

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.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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.

10.

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

Haskins, Caryl

11.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

13.

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

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

16.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

17.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Morrison, Jim

21.

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

Benchley, Robert

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

27.

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

28.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

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

Traherne, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Denham, Sir John

33.

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

34.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

35.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

36.

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

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

38.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

39.

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

40.

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

Bailey, Pearl

41.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

43.

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

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

Whitney, W. R.

45.

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

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Stevens, Ray

49.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

50.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl