Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

Socrates

3.

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.

4.

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

Ball, Lucille

5.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

6.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

7.

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.

8.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

9.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

10.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

11.

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

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Addison, Joseph

15.

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

16.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

18.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

19.

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

Manutius

20.

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

Sterne, Laurence

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

27.

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

Pickering

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Confucius

30.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

31.

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

Abbott, John

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

36.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

37.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.