Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

Confucius

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

Bible

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smiles, Sydney

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

Back, Sudie

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

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

Richard Feynman

10.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

Moliere

12.

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

Stoppard, Tom

13.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

14.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

15.

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

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

17.

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

Everett, Douglas

18.

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

Morrison, Jim

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Kuehler, Jack

26.

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

Confucius

27.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

32.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

34.

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

Sterne, Laurence

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Stevens, Ray

38.

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

39.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

40.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

45.

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

46.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

47.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates

49.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

50.

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