Action Quote by Francis Bacon

“The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.”

— Bacon, Francis

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

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

— Frederick Douglass

“Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.”

— William Cowper

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

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

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have…

— Francis Bacon

“The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

— Baltasar Gracian

Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are…

— Robert Henri