Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (16 page)

"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

"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

"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."
Francois Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another."
Francois Duc de La Rochenfoucauld

"We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves."
Francois, 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."
Francois 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 considerable, 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 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