Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge, not improved and well employed, will only increase our condemnation at the last day.

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

The persons I speak of are not thoughtless about religion: they think a good deal about it. They are not ignorant of religion: they know the outlines of it pretty well. But their great defect is that they are not "rooted and grounded" in their faith. Too often they have picked up their knowledge second hand, from being in religious families, or from being trained in religious .ways, but have never worked it out by their own inward experience

furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,

to get anywhere worth while without the higher mathematics is not only impossible but that it would be vaguely immoral if you could.

I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.

There is no comparison between the technology of a submarine going across and the unadorned submersible diving deep. This is because our world is firstly about power and only secondly about knowledge.

Vivre, connaître la vie, c'est le plus léger, le plus subtil des apprentissages. Rien à voir avec le savoir." L'inconnu sur la terre

As Puritan Cotton Mather proclaimed, "Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion but of HERESY."4

There is no nonempirical knowledge, especially no theological or ethical knowledge. Science and science alone carries authority in culture because the alleged possession of knowledge gives people authority, and science and science alone is perceived to have knowledge. Outside science — especially in theological, ethical, or political discussions — the makeup man is more important than the speech-writer (feeling and image are more important than reason, knowledge, and truth).

we cannot "prove," that is, "make known to ourselves and to others," what God's will is without the renewing or transformation of our minds.

Here's a simple definition of knowledge: It is to represent reality in thought or experience the way it really is on the basis of adequate grounds.

2. Propositional knowledge.

Propositional knowledge is justified true belief; it is believing something that is true on the basis of adequate grounds.

J.P. Moreland

We sing, "In my heart, Lord, be glorified," but when was the last time you heard someone sing, "In my intellectual life, Lord, be glorified"?

Knowledge by acquaintance gives us direct access to reality as it is in itself, and we actually know this to be the case in our daily lives.

The more you know about something, the more you're able to see when you look at it, the more you can remember about it, and the less tied you will be to following a mindless series of steps in working with what you know.

Second, when one tries to formulate a definition of knowledge or, more generally, when one investigates matters in epistemology, one does not start with a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for something to count as knowledge. Instead, one starts with paradigm cases of knowledge: central, clear cases of where knowledge does or does not obtain.

According to the Bible, developing a Christian mind is part of the very essence of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus.

As former president of the United Nations General Assembly Charles Malik has said, "I must be frank with you: the greatest danger confronting American evangelical Christianity is the danger of anti-intellectualism. The mind in its greatest and deepest reaches is not cared for enough.

The Lord's Word is not only practically useful, it is also theoretically true (John 17:17).

For many secularists, knowledge is obtained solely by means of the senses and science. Something is true and reasonable to believe to the degree that it can be tested by the five senses — it can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or felt. Seeing is believing. Likewise, knowledge is identical to scientific knowledge. If you can prove something scientifically, then it is culturally permissible or even obligatory to believe it.

Science is the measure of all things, and when a scientist speaks about something, he or she speaks ex cathedra