Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- Oldham, John

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Stevens, Ray

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

Markham, Beryl

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

Denham, Sir John

11.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

18.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

25.

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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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

29.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

30.

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

Cowper, William

31.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

36.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

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Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

Channing, William Ellery

45.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

47.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

48.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

49.

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

Van Horne, William

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese