Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Bible

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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

Everett, Douglas

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Manutius

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.

10.

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

11.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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.

14.

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

Cowper, William

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

17.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Mueller, Robert K.

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

21.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

22.

I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

23.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

24.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

25.

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)

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

28.

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

Confucius

29.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Pickering

32.

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

33.

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

34.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

36.

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

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.

Stevens, Ray

39.

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

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'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

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

Sterne, Laurence

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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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

48.

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

49.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

50.

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

Proverb, Persian