Quotes About Knowledge

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.