Quotes About Knowledge

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

Personally, I know nothing about sex because I've always been married.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Great intellects are skeptical.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

The less we know the more we suspect.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.