Access Quote by James Fitzjames Stephen

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

— Claudius Buchanan

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

“A human being needs to endure something in order to learn to assess himself correctly, and not least to learn to think with others.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by…

— B C Forbes

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

— Rafael Sabatini

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

— Edward Thorndike

“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms…

— Charles Darwin

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“Our knowledge leads to a particular awareness that influences how we view and understand things in general.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib