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Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
~ Phil Plait
Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!
~ Jim Cornette
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible
~ Miyamoto Musashi
Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
~ Voltaire
It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.
~ Philipp Melanchthon
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
~ Bear Grylls
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
~ Walter Mosley
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
~ Anne Catherine Emmerich
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
~ Crystal Eastman
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
~ George Leigh Mallory
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
~ James Harrington
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
~ Fred Hoyle
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
~ Victor Hugo
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
~ Isaac Newton
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
~ Roger Bacon
An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
~ George Eliot
No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.
~ Harry S. Truman
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise man's home is the universe.
~ Democritus