“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”
Widely attributed to Catherine II online, this has been attributed to Confucius in published books, but no print sources attribute this to Catherine.
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“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”
“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
Vol. 1, letter 11.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
“Man knows much more than he understands.”
As quoted in A Primer of Adlerian Psychology: The Analytic-Behavioural-Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler (1999) by Harold H. Mosak and Michael P. Maniacci
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”
Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959
Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956