Quotes about Knowledge
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
- Aristotle
I know so much about men because I went to night school.
- Mae West
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.
- Oswald Chambers
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- James Madison
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.
- John Calvin
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
- John Milton
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Samuel Johnson
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.
- Elie Wiesel
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
- Cicero
Man by Nature desires to know.
- Aristotle
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.
- Arthur Conan Doyle