Quotes About Knowledge

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.