Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Moliere

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

10.

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

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

11.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

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

Manutius

17.

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

18.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Fink, David Harold

23.

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

24.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

26.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

29.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

30.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

31.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

32.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Traherne, Thomas

36.

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

Pickering

37.

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

38.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

39.

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

Bernard, Claude

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

44.

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

Ball, Lucille

45.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

46.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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.

49.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

50.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline