Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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

Manutius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

11.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

12.

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

Van Horne, William

13.

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

14.

Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

15.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

17.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

18.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

19.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

20.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

23.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

24.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

27.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

29.

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''

30.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

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

Pickering

32.

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

Bailey, Pearl

33.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

34.

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

Michener, James A.

35.

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

36.

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

Stevens, Ray

37.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

40.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

41.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

42.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

43.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

44.

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.

45.

To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

46.

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

Margaret Fuller

47.

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

Bernard, Claude

48.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

49.

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

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.