Quotes About Knowledge

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar