Quotes About Knowledge

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.