Quotes About Knowledge

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

No man should be angry with what is true.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.