Acquire Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are…

— Thomas Huxley

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

What men need is, as much knowledge as they can assimilate and organize into a basis for action; give them more and it may…

— Thomas Huxley

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in…

— Sarah Fielding

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their…

— Aristotle

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It…

— Immanuel Kant

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe