Quotes About Knowledge

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.