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

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 Molire

"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

"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

"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

"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 Annus Seneca

"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."

Lucius Annus 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

"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