Able Quote by Plato

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

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it…

— Albert Einstein

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

— Charles Kingsley

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

— Matthew Arnold

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

— James Smithson

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are…

— Benjamin Disraeli

All men by nature desire knowledge.

— Aristotle

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

— Marquis de Lafayette