Faculty Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Samuel Johnson

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

— Frederick the Great

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

— Paul Valery

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

— Seneca the Younger

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something…

— A. A. Milne

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often…

— Arthur Helps

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

— Anonymous

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

— Francis of Assisi

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study," said Mr. Monk, "and…

— Anthony Trollope