Quotes About Knowledge

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

I have always advised men to read

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.