Quotes About Knowledge

Then, again, there are three things which every artificer must possess if he is to effect anything,—nature, education, practice. Nature is to be judged by capacity, education by knowledge, practice by its fruit.

And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very "long" is not long, but by the pause of time. How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is? or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?

Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.

A free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.

The good angels, therefore, hold cheap all that knowledge of material and transitory things which the demons are so proud of possessing,—not that they are ignorant of these things, but because the love of God, whereby they are sanctified, is very dear to them.

Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.

For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.

But the holy angels, towards whose society and assembly we sigh while in this our toilsome pilgrimage, as they already abide in their eternal home, so do they enjoy perfect facility of knowledge and felicity of rest. It is without difficulty that they help us; for their spiritual movements, pure and free, cost them no effort.

Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee? Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these. And whoso knoweth both Thee and them is not the happier for them, but for Thee only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful, and becomes not vain in his imaginations.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

My fondness for good books was my salvation.

Beware the man of a single book.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence" (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

I think it's a pity she doesn't read because it means we shan't ever be able to talk about the books we've both read and recommend them to one another.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. — RICK WARREN