Act Quote by Frederick the Great

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

Man by Nature desires to know.

— Aristotle

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study," said Mr. Monk, "and…

— Anthony Trollope

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities,…

— Stanislaw Lem