Quotes About Knowledge

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Every invalid is a physician.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

The morning is wiser than the evening.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Laws die, books never.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.