Quotes About Knowledge

On the one hand, he knows, before anything appears, what he will produce. On the other hand, the fruit that has not yet appeared knows nothing and does nothing.

The spirit came to this person in haste when the person was awakened. Having given its hand to the one lying prone on the ground, it placed him firmly on his feet, for he had not yet stood up.36 This gave them the means of knowing the knowledge of the father and the revelation of his son. For when they saw it and listened to it, he permitted them to take a taste of and to smell and to grasp the beloved son.

But the rulers lingered in front of what they call the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is enlightened insight,89 so that Adam might not behold its fullness90 and recognize his shameful nakedness.

Our sister Sophia is the one who descended in an innocent manner to restore what she lacked. For this reason she was called life100—that is, the mother of the living—by the forethought of the sovereignty of heaven and by [the insight that appeared] to Adam.101 Through her have the living tasted perfect knowledge.102

Speak of truth with those who seek it and of knowledge with those who have sinned in their error. [33]

Rather, they are letters of truth; they speak and know themselves. Each letter is a perfect truth13 like a perfect book, for they are letters written in unity, written by the father for the eternal realms, so that by means of his letters they might come to know the father.

A True Woman is characterized by right thinking … She is not swayed by every "wind of doctrine" (Eph. 4:14) that comes along. She has a heart for solid biblical teaching and has a growing knowledge of God's Word. She knows how to evaluate what she hears to see if it measures up to Scripture. And she knows how to live her life in a way that "accords with sound doctrine" (Titus 2:1).

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

The fact is, "wise girls get more" of what really matters for this life and the next!

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

How have we learned to look at those women who exercise power, or who try to? What are the cultural underpinnings of misogyny in politics or the workplace, and its forms (what kind of misogyny, aimed at what or whom, using what words or images, and with what effects)? How and why do the conventional definitions of 'power' (or for that matter of 'knowledge', 'expertise' and 'authority') that we carry round in our heads exclude women?

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

Polybius more than 150 years earlier

Quo usque tandem ignorabitis vires vestras?' ('How long will you go on being ignorant of your strength?')

is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

received a classical education

recognize phrases