Quotes About Knowledge

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.