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Quotes About Omniscience

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
~ William Ralph Inge
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
~ Douglas Coupland
The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.
~ Thomas Nashe
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
~ Maimonides
In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.
~ Josef Pieper
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
~ Alexander Pope
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
~ Anton Chekhov
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
~ Antonia Fraser
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
~ David Foster Wallace
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
~ Horace
I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.
~ Martin Scorsese
The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.
~ R. C. Sproul
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
~ Richard Dawkins
Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.
~ Charles Kingsley
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
~ Peter Kreeft
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
~ Emily Dickinson
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
~ C. S. Lewis
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
~ Dave Sim
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
~ Francis Collins
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do. [Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]
~ Plautus
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
~ Robert Breault
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
~ Aeschylus