Quotes About Knowledge

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

Viola felt as if she spent her life wading through a sea of ignorance, shallow but without a shore in sight.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.