Quotes About Knowledge

There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'," he said. "There is only one truth. You'll live to find that out.

That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

the three-leafed seamair óg holds the true luck—the luck of knowing Brigid.

He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.

He's at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he'll write one someday.

Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.

having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?

A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

Speak not of what you know until you become that of which you speak, for a witch is what you are rather than something you do.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

We survive by controlling our environment, and control is made possible by information. So lack of information quickly breeds insecurity and a situation in which any information is regarded as better than none.

While we have more scientific knowledge of the universe than any people ever had, it is not the type of knowledge that leads to an intimate presence within a meaningful universe.… The difficulty is that with the rise of the modern sciences we began to think of the universe as a collection of objects rather than as a communion of subjects.