Quotes About Knowledge

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what