Quotes About Knowledge

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.