Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

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''

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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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

18.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Stevens, Ray

20.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

21.

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

Denham, Sir John

22.

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

Pickering

23.

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

24.

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

25.

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

26.

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

Haskins, Caryl

27.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

28.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Mill, John Stuart

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

38.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Everett, Douglas

40.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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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.

43.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

44.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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

47.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

48.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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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