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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
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"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
- David Ben-Gurion
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn
Learning is the begining of wealth.Learning is the begining of health. Learningis the begining of spiritually.Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
The great Breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.This means there are no limits on what you can be,have or do.
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance." William Ellery Channing
"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." Norman Juster
"Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch." Steve Droke
"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse." Nigerian Proverb
"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T. S. Elliot
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." Thomas Fuller
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." Confucius
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
Peter F. Drucker
"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!" Benjamin Franklin
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
Brian Tracy
"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it." Samuel Johnson
"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." Frederic William Maitland
Nourish the mind like you would your body.The mind cannot survive on junk food.
Jim Rohn
"It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it." Persian Proverb
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Henry David Thoreau
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so." Mark Twain
"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
"I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights."
The Golden Dawn
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!
Jim Rohn
"Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
U.S. Air Force
"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."
African Proverb
"You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."
Rwandan Proverb
"'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
"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."
John Adams
"It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time."
Leo Aikman
"It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time."
Anonymous
"I am what I am and I have the need to be."
Anonymous
"If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself."
Anonymous
"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge."
Anonymous
"Knowledge become power only when we put it into use."
Anonymous
"Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited."
Anonymous
"Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget."
Anonymous
"Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all."
Anonymous
Learn something new.Try something different.Convince yourself that youhave no limits.
Brian Tracy
"Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand."
Anonymous
"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it."
Anonymous
"Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself."
Anonymous
"The more you know, the less you need to show."
Anonymous
"The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge."
Anonymous
"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about."
Anonymous
"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge."
Anonymous
"Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it."
Anonymous
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.
Jim Rohn
"If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation."
Anais Nin
"All men by nature desire to know."
Aristotle
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he
- Who finds himself loses his misery."
Mathew Arnold
"The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."
George S. Arundale
"Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows."
Isaac Asimov
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
Saint Augustine
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
Jane Austin
"For knowledge, too, is itself power."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man?s estate."
Francis Bacon
"The images of men?s wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Ivern Ball
"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 Mannes Baruch
"Can anything be beyond the knowledge of a man like you?"
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
"First come I; my name is Jowett.
There?s no knowledge but I know it.
I am Master of this college:
What I don?t know isn't knowledge."
Henry Charles Beeching
"Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth?
He that knew all that ever learning writ,
Knew only this?that he knew nothing yet."
Aphra Behn
Be a lifelong student.The moreyou learn ,the more you earn and more self confidence you will have.
Brian Tracy
"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."
Josh Billings
"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance ? it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.""
Francis Herbert Bradley
"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."
Claude M. Bristol
"One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality."
Stuart Brodie
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life."
Albert Camus
"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
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps?you make a life."
Sandra Carey
"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
Thomas Carlyle
"There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off."
Angela Carter
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."Catherine the Great
"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."
Bruce Catton
"In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Miguel de Cervantes
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, 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."
Pierre Charron-
"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"You already know enough to go to hell."
David A. Christensen
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."
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
"Knowledge is proud that he has learn?d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper
"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Miss a meal if you have to,but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn
"Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge."
Dante Alighieri
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Charles Robert Darwin
"The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn."
Bernard De Voto
Read an hour every day in your chosen field.This works out to about one book per week,50 booksper year,and will guarantee your success.
Brian Tracy
"Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge."
Dr. W. Edward Deming
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."
Demosthenes
"Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage."
Diane
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin DIsraeli ?
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
Will Durant
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Albert Einstein
"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."
George Eliot
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
- Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T.S.Eliot
"Knowledge is an antidote to fear."Ralph Waldo Emerson- ?
"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."
Richard Phillips Feynman
"Know what you want. . . . Become your real self."
David Harold Fink
"You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you."
David Harold Fink
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
"He knows the universe and does not know himself."
Jean De La Fontaine
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
Anatole France
"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
Benjamin Franklin
"Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations."
Sigmund Freud
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
Shakti Gawain
"Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art."
Theologia Germanica
"And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?"
Kahlil Gibran
"He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."
Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge and understanding are life?s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures."
Kahlil Gibran
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am ? not with what we know ? but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored."
John H. Glenn, Jr.
"Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results."
George W. Goethals
"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge ? it is the end."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What is not fully understood is not possessed."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."
Goerge Gurdjieff
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
Jim Rohn
"A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does."
Halibuton
"Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos."
E. V. Hammond
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Augustus William Hare
"When a person is groping in life, we say ?he has not found himself." This statement is not accurate. Self is created, not found."
Grant Von Harrison
"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."
Louise L. Hay
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
Herodotus
"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."
Eric Hoffer
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
Tom Hopkins
"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."
Elbert Green Hubbard
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
T.H. Huxley
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Thomas Henry Huxley
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
Eugene Ionesco
"Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself."
V.S. Iyser
"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."
Randall Jacobs
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from the darkness ?
that darkness flung me ?
Is worthless as ignorance:
nothing comes from nothing
The darkness from the darkness.
Pain comes from the darkness
And we call it wisdom.
It is pain."
Randall Jarrell
"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."
Samuel Johnson
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Rogers
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant
"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 heart-throbs 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 Adams Keller
"Be that self which one truly is."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."
Frank Kingdom
If someone is going down the wrong road,he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around .
Jim Rohn
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
Madelein K. L'Engle
"He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld ?
"He is strong who conquers others;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tse
"He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment."
Lao Tse
"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. "
Lao Tse
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Bruce Lee
"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."
Larr Leissner
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
E. St. Elmo Lewis
"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."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world ? introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably ? that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves."
Walter Lippman
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
Audre Lorde
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
John Lubbock
"Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself."
Sir James Makintosh
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
James Madison
"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
Sidney Madweb
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself."
Beryl Markham
"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare."
Harriet Martineau
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
John McCain
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine."
H.L. Mencken
"An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool."
Jean Paul Baptiste Moli?re
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
Brian Tracy
"I have had more trouble with myself than with any man I have ever met!"
Dwight L. Moody
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."
Charles Morgan
"Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
Christopher Darlington Morley
"Packed in my skin from head to toe
Is one I know and do not know."
Edwin Muir
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Jim Rohn
"Knowledge is power if you know about the right person."
Ethel Mumford
"He who reveals to me what is in me and helps me to externalize it in fuller terms of self-trust, is my real helper, for he assists me in the birth of those things which he knows are in me and in all men."
W. John Murray
"As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted."
Hugh Nibley
"No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven."
Hugh Nibley
"True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does."
Hugh Nibley
"Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
Anais Nin
"No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know I know
I know I know the less."
A. Ray Olpin
"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man."
William Penn
"Learn what you are and be such."
Pindar
"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."
Plato
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
Alexander Pope
"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."
Joseph Priestly
Ignorance is not bliss.Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignoranceis tragedy. Ignorance is illness.It all stems from ignorance.
Jim Rohn
"Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it."
Ayn Rand
"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth ? and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity."
Ayn Rand
"You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well."
Ayn Rand
"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Our lives teach us who we are."
Salman Rushdie
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself."
John Ruskin
"With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved."
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."
Mark Rutherford
"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."
George Santayan
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Scopenhauer
"Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
Lucius Ann?us Seneca
"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."
Lucius Ann?us Seneca
"Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
Sir Philip Sidney
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
Isaac Singer
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men?s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Socrates
The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
Herbert Spencer
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Laurence Sterne
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky
"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
Sun Tzu
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,?
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Henry David Thoreau
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
Henry David Thoreau
"You never know yourself till you know more than your body.""
Thomas Traherne
"Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins."
Upanishads V.
"Happy the man who knows the causes of things."
Vergil
"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
Denis Waitley
"The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge."
Thomas J. Watson
"Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind?that is one of the best sources of knowledge."
Daniel Webster
"Only the shallow know themselves."
Oscar Fingall O?Flahertie Wills Wilde
"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there."
William Wordsworth
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
Wilbur Wright
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."Anonymous
"The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do."
Brian Tracy
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." John Cassavetes
"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes." Euripides
"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. "
Brian Tracy
"No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home." Benjamin Disraeli
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."
Brian Tracy
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill
"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge." Benjamin Disraeli
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." James A. Garfield
"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come." C.S. Lewis
Formal education will make you a living.Self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." Jim Rohn
"Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick." Dr. Frank Crane
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe
- Christopher Morley
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
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"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
- David Ben-Gurion
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
Jim Rohn
Learning is the begining of wealth.Learning is the begining of health. Learningis the begining of spiritually.Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
The great Breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself.This means there are no limits on what you can be,have or do.
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance." William Ellery Channing
"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." Norman Juster
"Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch." Steve Droke
"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse." Nigerian Proverb
"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T. S. Elliot
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." Thomas Fuller
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance." Confucius
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
Peter F. Drucker
"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!" Benjamin Franklin
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
Brian Tracy
"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it." Samuel Johnson
"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." Frederic William Maitland
Nourish the mind like you would your body.The mind cannot survive on junk food.
Jim Rohn
"It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it." Persian Proverb
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Henry David Thoreau
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so." Mark Twain
"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
"I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights."
The Golden Dawn
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!
Jim Rohn
"Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge."
U.S. Air Force
"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."
African Proverb
"You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."
Rwandan Proverb
"'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
"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."
John Adams
"It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time."
Leo Aikman
"It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time."
Anonymous
"I am what I am and I have the need to be."
Anonymous
"If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself."
Anonymous
"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge."
Anonymous
"Knowledge become power only when we put it into use."
Anonymous
"Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited."
Anonymous
"Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget."
Anonymous
"Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all."
Anonymous
Learn something new.Try something different.Convince yourself that youhave no limits.
Brian Tracy
"Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand."
Anonymous
"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it."
Anonymous
"Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself."
Anonymous
"The more you know, the less you need to show."
Anonymous
"The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge."
Anonymous
"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about."
Anonymous
"We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge."
Anonymous
"Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it."
Anonymous
The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.
Jim Rohn
"If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation."
Anais Nin
"All men by nature desire to know."
Aristotle
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he
- Who finds himself loses his misery."
Mathew Arnold
"The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."
George S. Arundale
"Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows."
Isaac Asimov
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."
Saint Augustine
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
Jane Austin
"For knowledge, too, is itself power."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man?s estate."
Francis Bacon
"The images of men?s wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages."
Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Ivern Ball
"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 Mannes Baruch
"Can anything be beyond the knowledge of a man like you?"
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
"First come I; my name is Jowett.
There?s no knowledge but I know it.
I am Master of this college:
What I don?t know isn't knowledge."
Henry Charles Beeching
"Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth?
He that knew all that ever learning writ,
Knew only this?that he knew nothing yet."
Aphra Behn
Be a lifelong student.The moreyou learn ,the more you earn and more self confidence you will have.
Brian Tracy
"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."
Josh Billings
"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance ? it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.""
Francis Herbert Bradley
"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."
Claude M. Bristol
"One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality."
Stuart Brodie
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life."
Albert Camus
"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
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps?you make a life."
Sandra Carey
"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
Thomas Carlyle
"There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off."
Angela Carter
"The more a man knows, the more he forgives."Catherine the Great
"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."
Bruce Catton
"In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Miguel de Cervantes
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, 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."
Pierre Charron-
"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"You already know enough to go to hell."
David A. Christensen
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."
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
"Knowledge is proud that he has learn?d so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper
"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Miss a meal if you have to,but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn
"Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge."
Dante Alighieri
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Charles Robert Darwin
"The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn."
Bernard De Voto
Read an hour every day in your chosen field.This works out to about one book per week,50 booksper year,and will guarantee your success.
Brian Tracy
"Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge."
Dr. W. Edward Deming
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."
Demosthenes
"Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage."
Diane
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin DIsraeli ?
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
Will Durant
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Albert Einstein
"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."
George Eliot
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
- Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T.S.Eliot
"Knowledge is an antidote to fear."Ralph Waldo Emerson- ?
"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."
Richard Phillips Feynman
"Know what you want. . . . Become your real self."
David Harold Fink
"You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you."
David Harold Fink
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
"He knows the universe and does not know himself."
Jean De La Fontaine
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
Anatole France
"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
Benjamin Franklin
"Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations."
Sigmund Freud
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
Shakti Gawain
"Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art."
Theologia Germanica
"And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?"
Kahlil Gibran
"He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."
Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge and understanding are life?s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures."
Kahlil Gibran
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am ? not with what we know ? but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored."
John H. Glenn, Jr.
"Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results."
George W. Goethals
"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge ? it is the end."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What is not fully understood is not possessed."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
Oliver Goldsmith
"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave."
Goerge Gurdjieff
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
Jim Rohn
"A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does."
Halibuton
"Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos."
E. V. Hammond
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
Augustus William Hare
"When a person is groping in life, we say ?he has not found himself." This statement is not accurate. Self is created, not found."
Grant Von Harrison
"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."
Louise L. Hay
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
Herodotus
"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."
Eric Hoffer
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."
Tom Hopkins
"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."
Elbert Green Hubbard
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
T.H. Huxley
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Thomas Henry Huxley
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
Eugene Ionesco
"Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself."
V.S. Iyser
"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."
Randall Jacobs
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from the darkness ?
that darkness flung me ?
Is worthless as ignorance:
nothing comes from nothing
The darkness from the darkness.
Pain comes from the darkness
And we call it wisdom.
It is pain."
Randall Jarrell
"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."
Samuel Johnson
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Rogers
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Carl Gustav Jung
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant
"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 heart-throbs 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 Adams Keller
"Be that self which one truly is."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence."
Frank Kingdom
If someone is going down the wrong road,he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around .
Jim Rohn
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
Madelein K. L'Engle
"He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld
"What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us."
Fran?ois, Duc de La Rochenfoucauld ?
"He is strong who conquers others;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tse
"He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment."
Lao Tse
"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. "
Lao Tse
"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."
Bruce Lee
"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."
Larr Leissner
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
E. St. Elmo Lewis
"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."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
"We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world ? introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably ? that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves."
Walter Lippman
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
Audre Lorde
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
John Lubbock
"Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself."
Sir James Makintosh
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
James Madison
"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
Sidney Madweb
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself."
Beryl Markham
"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare."
Harriet Martineau
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
John McCain
"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine."
H.L. Mencken
"An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool."
Jean Paul Baptiste Moli?re
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
Brian Tracy
"I have had more trouble with myself than with any man I have ever met!"
Dwight L. Moody
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."
Charles Morgan
"Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
Christopher Darlington Morley
"Packed in my skin from head to toe
Is one I know and do not know."
Edwin Muir
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Jim Rohn
"Knowledge is power if you know about the right person."
Ethel Mumford
"He who reveals to me what is in me and helps me to externalize it in fuller terms of self-trust, is my real helper, for he assists me in the birth of those things which he knows are in me and in all men."
W. John Murray
"As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted."
Hugh Nibley
"No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven."
Hugh Nibley
"True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does."
Hugh Nibley
"Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
Anais Nin
"No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know I know
I know I know the less."
A. Ray Olpin
"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man."
William Penn
"Learn what you are and be such."
Pindar
"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."
Plato
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
Alexander Pope
"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."
Joseph Priestly
Ignorance is not bliss.Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignoranceis tragedy. Ignorance is illness.It all stems from ignorance.
Jim Rohn
"Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it."
Ayn Rand
"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth ? and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity."
Ayn Rand
"You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well."
Ayn Rand
"A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Our lives teach us who we are."
Salman Rushdie
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself."
John Ruskin
"With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved."
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."
Mark Rutherford
"Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."
George Santayan
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Scopenhauer
"Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
Lucius Ann?us Seneca
"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."
Lucius Ann?us Seneca
"Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
Sir Philip Sidney
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
Isaac Singer
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men?s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Socrates
The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Socrates
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
Herbert Spencer
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Laurence Sterne
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky
"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
Sun Tzu
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,?
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
Henry David Thoreau
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
Henry David Thoreau
"You never know yourself till you know more than your body.""
Thomas Traherne
"Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins."
Upanishads V.
"Happy the man who knows the causes of things."
Vergil
"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
Denis Waitley
"The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge."
Thomas J. Watson
"Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind?that is one of the best sources of knowledge."
Daniel Webster
"Only the shallow know themselves."
Oscar Fingall O?Flahertie Wills Wilde
"I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains."
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there."
William Wordsworth
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
Wilbur Wright
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Sir Winston Churchill
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."Anonymous
"The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do."
Brian Tracy
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." John Cassavetes
"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes." Euripides
"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. "
Brian Tracy
"No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home." Benjamin Disraeli
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results."
Brian Tracy
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill
"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." Eric Hoffer
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge." Benjamin Disraeli
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." James A. Garfield
"The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come." C.S. Lewis
Formal education will make you a living.Self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins." Jim Rohn
"Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick." Dr. Frank Crane
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe
