Quotes About Knowledge

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.