Quotes About Knowledge

Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je teško sagledati i najo?igledniju istinu, kako ?ovek, uopšte, sporo u?i i kako skupo pla?a to malo što u svom kratkom veku nau?i.

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Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne zna ?itati, nego onaj koji misli da je sve što pro?ita istina.

Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.

Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne umije da ?ita, nego onaj koji misli da je sve ono što pro?ita istina.

Ostati ravnodušan prema knjizi zna?i lakomisleno osiromašiti svoj život.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

Very often we claim to know something. We get an idea about what to do or not do, yet, for some reason our behavior doesn't change. At times, we just can't seem to do what we know. This is known as mental healing. Something has shifted in your thinking, but it has not reach the other levels of your being—the heart and the spirit.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

The Apostle] Paul's prayer for the Christians at Colosse should always be on our lips: That God fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9).

what a school was: a building designed to aid in gaining new knowledge, communicating it to others, and applying it in invention. This was a revelation. His creators needed

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.'   If

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?

How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.

Two library visits in one evening. Why, it could become a habit.