Quotes About Knowledge

Bryan A. Follis

Carnell saw the purpose of Christian apologetics as removing from critics any excuse for not repenting before God. He was convinced that "men who refuse Christ because of presumed 'logical errors' in Christianity are men with a self-righteousness in the area of knowledge.

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. "Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?" Hurt asked at one point. "I can tell you," Karpis said. "How do you know where it is?" asked Clyde Tolson, who sat in the backseat with Hoover. "We were thinking of robbing it," Karpis said.

I know the name of your seventh-grade Texas History teacher." When the Texan expresses skepticism that this could be possible, you smile and say, "Coach.

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

To believe Daniel is writing prophecy, as he claims, and not history, as the level of detail would seem to suggest, would require belief that what is written was supernaturally inspired. And if God has thus spoken, then his Word has far more authority over our lives than we may wish, and his far-reaching knowledge is far more real than we may want on the days that we want to go our own way.

The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

The only true path to wisdom is through experience and reflection.

He knew nothing accurately about any subject in the world, but he could clothe his ignorance in pontifical garments and give his confusion the accents of authority. He had a remarkable flair for discerning and elaborating the tiny quantum of popular knowledge on any matter.

Better a crook you know than one you don't.

You can't learn less.