Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (15 page)

"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

"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

"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

"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

 
"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
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 learned 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

"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

"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