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Quotes About Knowledge

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
~ Joseph Campbell
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
~ Unknown
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue
~ Unknown
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
~ Charles Spurgeon
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.
~ H. L. Mencken
Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.
~ George Coyne
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
~ Wilson Mizner
Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'
~ Barry Commoner
Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
~ Richard L. Evans
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Understanding is the reward of faith.
~ Saint Augustine
Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.
~ Peter Boghossian
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.
~ Jon Stewart
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
~ Benjamin Carson
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
~ John Calvin
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
~ Patricia Briggs
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Put faith in one who's had experience.
~ Ovid
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
~ Matthew Simpson
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
~ Saint Augustine
Your faith is what you believe not what you know.
~ John Lancaster Spalding