Quotes About Knowledge

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.