Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

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

"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