Quotes about Knowledge
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
— Tertullian
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
— Aldous Huxley
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
— Charles Spurgeon
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
— John Henry Newman
All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
— Albert Einstein
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
— CS Lewis
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
— Virginia Woolf
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