Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

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

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

12.

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

Stevens, Ray

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

15.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

16.

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

17.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

18.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

19.

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

20.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

24.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

Mill, John Stuart

27.

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

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Bergethon, R. K.

29.

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

Samuel Johnson

30.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

33.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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.

36.

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

Markham, Beryl

37.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

38.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

42.

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

43.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

45.

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

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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

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

48.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

49.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.