Failing Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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 natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition…

— Thomas a Kempis

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

— Michel de Montaigne

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

— Bertrand Russell

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is…

— Samuel Smiles

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

— Heraclitus