Quotes About Knowledge

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.