Knowledge Quotes

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.

There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.

If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

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

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.

We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

He that increaseth knowledge increascth sorrow.

He who knows others is learned He who knows himself is wise.

It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

Know him know me.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If I am not for myself who will be?

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.