Quotes About Knowledge

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

The old men know when an old man dies.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?