Quotes About Knowledge

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge, Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves Of Empires heave but like some passing waves.

He thought about himself, and the whole Earth, Of Man the wonderful, and of the Stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he thought of Earthquakes, and of Wars, How many miles the Moon might have in girth, Of Air-balloons, and of the many bars To perfect Knowledge of the boundless Skies; And then he thought of Donna Julia's eyes.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by Him.

I would suggest that true literacy—the kind that matters—brings about clearer thinking and informed action. Thus, true biblical literacy involves an interaction with the Bible that changes the way one thinks and acts, and that kind of interaction takes time.

Those who neglect theology may live a shallow, insipid form of Christianity that, in the end, neither affects life nor endures the test of time.

Katie Prudent: One of the greatest things about those times was that everything he [George Morris] taught us in the equitation had form with meaningful function. Your straight back was for strength, and your heels were your anchor. Everything he taught us made so much sense and that knowledge translated from equitation to the jumpers.

You can lead a man to wisdom, but you cannot make him think.

If you really want to change Reality, the first thing to do is figure out what Reality really is.

There are no inherent mysteries, only intricate misunderstandings.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

It is said that God the Creator is all-knowing. But if that were true, He would have known better.

There is more to life, and less to the traditional explanations of it, than meets the eye unaided by reason.

The younger generation should always learn from the older — even if only from their mistakes.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.