Quotes About Knowledge

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

Man's best candle is his understanding.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.