Education Quote by Anthony Trollope

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— Frederick the Great

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is…

— Henry Fielding

“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be…

— Johann Lamont

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one…

— Bernard Malamud

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

— Steve Berry

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect…

— Lord Acton