Quotes About Knowledge

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.