Ability Quote by Immanuel Kant

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

— Samuel Johnson

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

— Andrea Dworkin

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth.

— Aristotle

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

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

All men naturally desire to know,but what does knowledge avail without the fear of God?

— Anonymous

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

— Jacob Viner

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

— Sri Aurobindo