Quotes About Knowledge

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.