No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox.
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
One copy of The [London] Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
I'm always impressed when fans' knowledge surpasses me.
After all, a learned man is often not much better off than a man who knows a great many commonplace people.
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.
If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.
I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.
