Quotes About Knowledge

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

Only failure makes us experts.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

I believe in order that I may understand.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.