Quotes About Knowledge

Usa-se a perseguição em teologia e não na aritmética, porque na aritmética há conhecimento, ao passo que na teologia só há opiniões. Portanto, sempre que der consigo a ficar zangado por causa de uma diferença de opinião, fique alerta: provavelmente descobrirá, pensando outra vez no assunto, que as suas crenças ultrapassam aquilo que a informação disponível permite afirmar.

Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

Um homem sábio desfrutará os bens que há em abundância, e de lixo intelectual encontrará abundante dieta, no nosso tempo como em qualquer outro.

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. To know the truth is more difficult than most men suppose, and to act with ruthless determination in the belief that truth is the monopoly of their party is to invite disaster.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Ä°lahiyatç?lar küçük ÅŸeyler için ÅŸükretmeye al??m??t?r ve bilimciler onlara bir tanr? verdikleri sürece bunun nas?l bir tanr? olduÄŸunu pek umursamazlar.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads]." - Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of the sciences, and the kind which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs.

As soon as the definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science.

Marea problem? cu lumea este c? proÈ™tii È™i fanaticii sunt întotdeauna foarte siguri pe ei, în timp ce oamenii mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, sunt plini de dubii.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Akbar, though he could neither read nor write, was a highly educated man.

I knew too little of Africa to leave it, and what I knew I loved too much.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Youth was a condition defined by the fact that you don't know what you don't know until it's too late.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

If we can come up with a God we can fully explain, we have come up with a different God from the Bible's. We must beware of recreating an image of God that makes us feel better. Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back. 2 Peter 2:21

into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don't know any other

Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding scripture to know it.

Know the Messiah's love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19