Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

Moliere

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

Fink, David Harold

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

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

Bergethon, R. K.

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

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

10.

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

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

12.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

14.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

18.

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)

19.

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

Cowper, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

26.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

27.

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

Bailey, Pearl

28.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

29.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

30.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

31.

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

32.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

35.

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

36.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

38.

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

39.

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

Enrico Fermi

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

Bright, Grant M.

42.

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

Pickering

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

46.

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

47.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Penn, William

48.

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

49.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

50.

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