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

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Chesterfield, Lord

5.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

6.

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

Pickering

7.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

8.

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

Confucius

9.

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

Traherne, Thomas

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

12.

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

13.

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

Smiles, Samuel

14.

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

Enrico Fermi

15.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

17.

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

Starr, Lonny

18.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Socrates

22.

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

Van Horne, William

23.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

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

Back, Sudie

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Sterne, Laurence

29.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

33.

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

34.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Everett, Douglas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

41.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

42.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

43.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.