Quotes About Knowledge

Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.

But as far as I can tell, there does not exist a study of what our first four presidents learned, where they learned it, who they learned it from, and what they did with that knowledge. That is what I endeavor to explore in this work.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Men have become fools with their tools.

God mediates his revelation to human beings in such a way that he accommodates his self-revealing to human knowing and adapts human knowing to receive and apprehend what he reveals in ways that are appropriate to it.

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

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The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who is fond of the phrase, has gone so far as to claim that free-trade treaties are so good that supporting them doesn't require knowledge of their actual contents. "I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Initiative," he told Tim Russert in 2006. "I didn't even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade."11

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

A book that is shut is but a block.

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Old foxes want no tutors.

The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

The Indwelling of Christ by faith…is to have Jesus Christ continually in one's eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it…. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes. —Thomas Goodwin, Works, 2:411