Quotes About Knowledge

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

No man knows my history.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.