Inspirations

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.

- John Abbott

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

- Franklin P Adams

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

- Joseph Addison

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

- Thomas Arnold

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

- Sudie Back

Knowledge is power.

- Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

- Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

- Ivern Ball

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

- Lucille Ball

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

- Orlando A Battista

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

- R K Bergethon

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

- Bible

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

- Bible

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Grant M Bright

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

- Mark Caine

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

- Sandara Carey

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

- William Ellery Channing

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

- Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- William Cowper

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

- Ralph J Cudworth

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

- Denis Diderot

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

- Peter F Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

- Peter F Drucker

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

- William J Durant

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

- Thomas A Edison

Knowledge is the only elegance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- Epictetus

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

- Douglas Everett

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin H Fischer

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- J Paul Getty

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

- Kahlil Gibran

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

- Baltasar Gracian

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

- George Gurdjieff

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

- Bishop Hall

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

- Caryl Haskins

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

- Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Knowledge is only potential power.

- Napoleon Hill

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.

- John Holt

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

- Horace

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

- Samuel Johnson

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Samuel Johnson

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

- Carl Jung

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

- Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge, broad, deep knowledge, is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

- Helen Keller

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

- John F Kennedy

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

- Jack Kuehler

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

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.

- Christopher Lasch

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.

- Konrad Lorenz

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James A Michener

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

- John Stuart Mill

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

- Keith Miller

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

- Darius Ogden Mills

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

- John Milton

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

- Hannah More

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.

- John Morely

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

- John Oldham

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

- Leroy Satchel Paige

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

- William Penn

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

- Francis Picabia

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

- Pickering

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Persian Proverb

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

- Rembrandt

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

- Cavett Robert

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

- Rutherford D Roger

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

- Saying

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.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Laurence Sterne

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

- Ray Stevens

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

- Tom Stoppard

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

- Swinnock

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

- Thomas Szasz

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

- Alvin Toffler

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

- Mark Twain

Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

- Source Unknown

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

- Source Unknown

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

- Source Unknown

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

- Source Unknown

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

- Marquis De Vauvenargues

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

- John Archibald Wheeler

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

- Edwin P Whipple

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

- W R Whitney

I am not young enough to know everything.

- Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

- Mao Zedong

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.

- Bernard M Baruch

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.

- Elias Canetti

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- David Harold Fink

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Get Inspired for Virtue 1: Wisdom and Knowledge, and Cognitive Strengths

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.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

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

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

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

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

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

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

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

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

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

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

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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

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

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

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

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

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

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

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

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

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Knowledge is only potential power.

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.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

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.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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

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

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

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.