Quotes About Knowledge

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.