Quotes About Knowledge

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

A man must know his limitations.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Books are men of higher stature.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.