Quotes About Knowledge

The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.

To a man talking about God is like using a spoon to get water from the Nile.

To be without knowledge is to be without light.

To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.

You can't understand hard things merely by doing hard work.

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

You must know something about a person before you hate him.

You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life

I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being

God is infinite and we are finite; therefore, we can never know everything about God. But just because we cannot know everything about God does not mean that we cannot know anything about him, and to know him in an accurate and definite manner.

the study of theology is the most important human activity.

to love God means to devote our intellect to the worship and service of God, to acquire knowledge about him and his commands, and to obey all biblical precepts.

Scripture testifies that only knowledge about God is a worthy end:

Within the Christian worldview, Scripture is the sole and ultimate test for truth. God has given us a system of truth through the Scripture. Since the Bible is God's revelation, it can never be wrong on any issue that it addresses. A thorough knowledge and understanding of the Scripture, then, is our ultimate safeguard against satanic deception of every kind.

Since the objective standard of goodness is the word of God, and evil is meant by whatever deviates from this objective goodness, we know that if we can gain knowledge of the content of divine revelation, we will know what constitutes goodness, and also what is evil.

Just because a person has been a Christian for many years does not mean that he is spiritually mature. Rather, due to his lack of initiative and negligence, he may need "someone to teach [him] the elementary truths of God's word all over again.

spiritual infants are not able to "distinguish good from evil," and as we have observed, these are identified by the fact that they are still feeding on spiritual milk, or "elementary truths.

The Bible's answer is that it is possible for man to have knowledge about God because God has revealed himself to man.

Nevertheless, this knowledge is indestructible and undeniable, so that it surfaces in distorted forms in non-Christian religions, philosophies, and ethical principles.

It would be wise for Christians to invest their time, energy, and money in pursuit of theological knowledge.

Many professing Christians are still focused on seeking wealth rather than knowledge about God, because they do not really believe that the fear of God and the word of God are worth more than gold.