Quotes About Knowledge

Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father's intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.

He had been enjoying his explanation, and now she had spoiled things by knowing too much.

Even if it means I have to run off and live in the wild caves with a bag over my head, I still want to know what's going on. I need to know.

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Lo que quiero decir es que nunca sabremos nada porque probablemente no haya nada que saber. Vivimos en un mundo de sensaciones y sentimientos. Eso es todo lo que hay. Recuérdalo siempre, Samuel: nunca desprecies tus sensaciones y sentimientos, porque eso es todo lo que posees.

El conocimiento es un superpoder

The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.

The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.

Never trust people who've only got one fucking book.

People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.

Books have always meant a great deal to me. When I was young, people used to have all kinds of advice as to how the working class could free themselves from factory life and all of that frustration, but for me the true secret tunnel, the hidden escape route, was in the library, reading books.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

Don't argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God's Word.

Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.

The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.

Sin embargo, mientras más conocimiento adquirimos, menos sabiduría parecemos tener.

Our Father and our God, I stand in awe of Your majesty and brilliance. I admit that I do not understand the mysteries of Your universe. Your knowledge and wisdom overpower me and leave me in wonder. Thank You, though, for revealing the one secret I most need—the secret of salvation through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.

It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God's Word and pray.

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" [Romans 10:17 KJV].