Quotes about Knowledge
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
- Cicero
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
- Cicero
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
- Mark Twain
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
- Robert Frost
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
- Henry Ward Beecher