Quotes About Knowledge

Poor Pat has not been informed of this yet,

but I didn't have the patience for its complexities.

That's the problem with educating girls' said Spode, bitterly, 'they never stop resorting to fact.

That's the problem with educating girls. They never stop resorting to fact.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

The secular bullies believe they have an exclusive patent on scientific knowledge.

Don't get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything

But these experts weren't experts on human nature, it turns out: instead, they used science as a catchword for political priorities that maximized centralization.

The real mark of education is learning how to think. Swallowing whole what your professors say doesn't teach you to think—it teaches you to think what they want you to think. And that is indoctrination, pure and simple.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

We live in a Jesus haunted culture that is Biblically illiterate, and so unfortunately at this point in time, almost anything can pass for knowledge of the historical Jesus from notions that he was a a Cynic sage to ideas that he was a Gnostic guru to fantasies that he didn't exist, to Dan Browne's Jesus of hysterical (rather than historical) fiction.

Faith is not the opposite of knowledge... Indeed, the mind is a gift from God, just as faith is.

It required an understanding of theology, and ethics, and ancient religions and philosophies. You had to have a working knowledge in a plethora of fields just to have the background to be able to deal with a book as rich and complex as the Bible.

We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge.

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

O amor é uma arte que nunca se aprende e sempre se sabe.

La experiencia es una llama que no alumbra sino quemando.

más sabe el que vive sin querer saber que el que quiere saber sin vivir

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

We cannot learn men from books.

You can know something and at the same time not know it. It's one of the things that help us put up with our lot in life and not go crazy