Quotes About Knowledge

As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

You will go to the lady and say certain things as i instruct you Suppose she sends for the police? She will not send for the police You cannot know that ! Mon cher, practically speaking, i know EVERYTHING

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.

faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.

Factually and objectively, however, nothing is indifferent, neither in nature, nor in the state, nor in science and art. All things, even the most humble, have their specific place and meaning in the context of the whole. Human beings are indifferent only to what they do not, or do not sufficiently, know; they automatically assess and appreciate what they do know. God, who knows all things, is not indifferent to anything.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the needs of the human heart.

Het is beter om de dingen niet te weten zonder dat je ze kent.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

Poëzie: de enige plaats waar onwetendheid het van academisme kan winnen.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

To choose the right dog," he said, "you'll need to do your homework." "I finished my homework," said Amelia Bedelia.

No one teaches well unless he has first learned well; no one learns well unless he learns in order to teach. And both learning and teaching are vain and unprofitable unless accompanied by practice.