Quotes About Knowledge

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

Educated men are so impressive.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.