Quotes About Knowledge

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.