Quotes About Knowledge

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.

A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?