Quotes About Knowledge

Cuanto más y mejor entiendes, tanto más gravemente serás juzgado si no vivieres santamente.

2. No tengas deseo demasiado de saber, porque en ello se halla grande estorbo y engaño. Los letrados gustan de ser vistos y tenidos por tales. Muchas cosas hay que, el saberlas, poco o nada aprovecha al alma; y muy loco es el que en otras cosas entiende, sino en las que tocan a la salvación. Las muchas palabras no hartan el alma; mas la buena vida le da refrigerio, y la pura conciencia causa gran confianza en Dios.

If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?

given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

However, because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than live well, they are often deceived and get no or very little benefits.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Adult data accumulates as a result of the child's ability to find out for himself what is different about life from the "taught concept" of life in his Parent and the "felt concept" of life in his Child. The Adult develops a "thought concept" of life based on data gathering and data processing.

Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Love follows knowledge.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

It is better to illuminate than merely to shine. Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.

It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and—need it be said?—those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.