Quotes About Knowledge

we consult reason or revelation

To speak less learnedly, and more intelligibly

It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

Faith also requires "purification" in Ratzinger's thought.  For Ratzinger, reason allows faith to discern what is superstitious from what is true and what inconsistent with truth from what is a genuine expansion of knowledge.

Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.

The two most important questions in science are "What can I know?" and "How can I know it?

All positive knowledge obtained . . . has resulted from the accurate observation of facts.

Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.

Aunque pensaron que entendían el texto bíblico, no lo aplicaron a su propia vida ni a su experiencia del mismo Hijo de Dios que vivió en medio de ellos (Mt 16:1-4; 22:29; Jn 5:39-40).

En Juan 17:3, en Su oración al Padre, Jesús dice: "Y esta es la vida eterna: que te conozcan a Ti, el único Dios verdadero, y a Jesucristo, a quien has enviado".

Ya??n?z ilerledikçe bütün ak?l hocalar? çekip gidiyor... ...Çünkü art?k onlara ihtiyac?n?z olmuyor.

The practice of education is the highest form of intellectual philanthropy.

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.

It is known, I was told.

And with thee is Wisdom, which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou wast making the world,

As a former army officer, he felt he had knowledge the protesters didn't have. Moreover, his brother-in-law, Donald Sampson, had gone to fight in Southeast Asia. Brand wasn't for the war (he considered himself to be on the "psychedelic side" in the political dispute over Vietnam), but he had a basic sympathy for the enlisted men, and he bridled when he heard that protesters were calling them baby killers.