Quotes About Knowledge

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.