Quotes About Knowledge

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!