knowledge Quotes

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.