Quotes About Knowledge

Man knows much more than he understands.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Beware of a man of one book.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!