Quotes About Knowledge

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that scare me, but the parts I do understand.

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Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you've got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you're willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

When the affairs of the world change, one should implement a different Way. … Therefore, it is said: "When the people are ignorant, one can become monarch through knowledge; when the generation is knowledgeable, one can become monarch through force".

There was something to be said for blissful ignorance. But would I have been happier with no idea about what threatened my world? At least this way I stood a chance of doing something about it.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter.

The point of education is to learn other ways too. Don't just assume that all you know is right. Learn more and then choose.

Poets seem to know things that scientists don't. And vice versa. Maybe they balance each other out somehow.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

Education liberates a woman.

Colossians 2:2-3 as my personal purpose statement, and I believe it is the purpose for women's ministry as well: "My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I don't believe I'm hearing this!' she declared. 'You'd been positively insulting about the fact that I knew nothing about Sicily—and just because I wanted to fill in a few gaps in my knowledge you make it sound like I had some kind of master-plan to ensnare you!' 'You didn't need a master-plan, Kate,' he told her starkly. 'Your eyes ensnared me from the first moment I looked into them.

You're the same today as you will be in five years except for 2 things : The people you meet n the books you read.

Still, many teens have inadequate or erroneous information about sex and its consequences.11

You erred in hiding yourself from yourself," Lute said sternly. "That is never wise. Misdirecting an enemy is merely self-defense.

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A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers," she teased.

I figured the teacher offered me the candy to shut up Claire and Molly and to make me feel good that I accidentally got all the questions right. But it was no accident. I knew them all. Every single one.