Quotes About Knowledge

Man by Nature desires to know.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.