Quotes About Knowledge

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?