“Man knows much more than he understands.”

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?”

William Least Heat-Moon book Blue Highways

“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”

Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“We understand more than we know.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher