Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Fink, David Harold

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.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

14.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

15.

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

Saying

16.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

17.

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

Smiles, Samuel

18.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

19.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

20.

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

21.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

22.

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

23.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

Oldham, John

24.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

25.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

28.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Addison, Joseph

32.

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

Starr, Lonny

33.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

34.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

35.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Socrates

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

'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

40.

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

Haskins, Caryl

41.

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

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

44.

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

Mill, John Stuart

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.