Quotes About Knowledge

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

A man's just gotta know his limits

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.