Quotes About Knowledge

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

A man's got to know his limitations.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.