Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

- Markham, Beryl

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

3.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

4.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

6.

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

7.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

8.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

9.

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

10.

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

11.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

12.

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

Addison, Joseph

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

16.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

20.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Smiles, Sydney

25.

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

Van Horne, William

26.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Degas, Edgar

29.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Everett, Douglas

31.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

32.

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.

33.

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

Ball, Lucille

34.

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

Socrates

35.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

36.

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

37.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

38.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

39.

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