Quotes About Knowledge

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.