Quotes about Knowledge

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

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.

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.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.