Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Pickering

Best Quotes about Knowledge

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Everett, Douglas

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

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Sterne, Laurence

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

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

13.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

14.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

15.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

16.

There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

18.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

21.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

22.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

28.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

29.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

30.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

31.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

33.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

36.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

37.

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

Morrison, Jim

38.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

39.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

40.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

43.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

44.

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

Cowper, William

45.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

46.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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