Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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)

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Michener, James A.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Enrico Fermi

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Van Horne, William

10.

'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

11.

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

Fink, David Harold

12.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

16.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

17.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Everett, Douglas

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Benchley, Robert

23.

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

24.

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

25.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

30.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

34.

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

Manutius

35.

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

Stevens, Ray

36.

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

Pickering

37.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

38.

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

Socrates

39.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

40.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

44.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

45.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

Locke, John

48.

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

Addison, Joseph

49.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

50.

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