Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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.

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

Markham, Beryl

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

Socrates

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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

Manutius

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

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

10.

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

11.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

12.

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

13.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Benchley, Robert

15.

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

Proverb, Persian

16.

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

17.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

20.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

21.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

22.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

23.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

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

Mill, John Stuart

25.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

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

35.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

36.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Starr, Lonny

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

41.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

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

Fink, David Harold

48.

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

49.

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

Michener, James A.

50.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)