Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Addison, Joseph

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

Shakespeare, William

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

11.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

12.

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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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.

14.

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

15.

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

16.

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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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

19.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

20.

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

Mill, John Stuart

21.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

22.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

28.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

29.

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

Everett, Douglas

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

33.

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

34.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

37.

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

Starr, Lonny

38.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

39.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

40.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

45.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

46.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.