Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kempis, Thomas

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Moliere

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

Socrates

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

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

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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

Ball, Lucille

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

Miller, Henry

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

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

Back, Sudie

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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

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

24.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

26.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

28.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Bailey, Pearl

31.

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.

32.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Traherne, Thomas

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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

38.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

39.

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

Cowper, William

40.

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

Kuehler, Jack

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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

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

43.

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

Sterne, Laurence

44.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

45.

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

Pickering

46.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis