Quotes About Knowledge

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

No man ever became wise by chance.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.