Quotes About Knowledge

All men desire by nature to know.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

A man has to know his limitations.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.