Quotes About Knowledge

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Books are dead men talking.