Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

All knowledge is ambiguous.

- Habgood, J. S.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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.

Confucius

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

Miller, Henry

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

12.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Fischer, Martin H.

14.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Bible

16.

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

17.

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

Back, Sudie

18.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

19.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

20.

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

Brown, Francis Yeats

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

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

Degas, Edgar

25.

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

26.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Bristol, Claude M.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Enrico Fermi

30.

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

31.

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

Benchley, Robert

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Bernard, Claude

34.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

36.

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

37.

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

Smiles, Samuel

38.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

39.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

44.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

46.

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.

47.

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

48.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

49.

Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

50.

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