Quotes About Knowledge

The world exists for the education of each man.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

...the infallible man does not exist.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.