Bounds Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be…

— Lord Chesterfield

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything…

— Anonymous

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.

— Georg Simmel

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Samuel Johnson

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by…

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

— Michel de Montaigne

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

— Francis of Assisi

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

— Irving Kristol