Quotes About Knowledge

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.