Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Bible

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Morely, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

10.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Carter, Angela

11.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

12.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

13.

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

14.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

16.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

17.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

18.

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

19.

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

Smiles, Sydney

20.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Denham, Sir John

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

27.

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

28.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

30.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

33.

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

Bernard, Claude

34.

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

35.

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

36.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

37.

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

38.

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

Margaret Fuller

39.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

40.

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

41.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Robert, Cavett

45.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.

Catton, Bruce

46.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas