Quotes About Knowledge

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.