Quotes About Knowledge

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?