Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.