Quotes About Knowledge

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

A man will be known by his books.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.