Quotes About Knowledge

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

To know is not less than to feel.

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

The Pringles had been married less than a week. Though she would have claimed to know about him everything there was to be known, she was now beginning to wonder if she really knew anything.

In the battle of ascesis and the offering of creatures to God in the cosmic liturgy, our will must cooperate with divine grace. But the ultimate knowledge, the love-knowledge of the Trinity, takes hold of us by grace alone. We prepare for it by a stripping away of our being until we become nothing but expectation.

The virtues acquired are the flesh of Christ and whoever eats it will find inner freedom. The contemplation of creatures is the blood of Christ and whoever drinks it will be enlightened by him. The knowledge of God is the breast of Christ and whoever rests on it will be a theologian. Evagrius of Pontus Mirror for Monks,

Je craignais de perdre ce que j'avais enfoui dans ma mémoire, tel un bibliothécaire qui refouterait un incendie.

Oluwapelumi dada

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Otherwise, no matter how clear our perception, it is nothing but worldly knowledge and discriminating knowledge and can never be called wisdom.

T]he ignorant soul is unaware even of that in which another is successful, but knowledge bears additional witness to that which is well done.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

How would you know?" I snapped at him, and we both looked to the midwife. When she assured us that everything was fine and reminded us both to breathe, we listened. She knew. She had been there many times before. It was her knowledge, born of experience, that we trusted.

Elementarze to wst?p do lektury ksi??ek. Ksi??ki s? zagro?eniem dla cnoty. A cnota jest tym wi?ksza im wi?ksza jest niewiedza.

quell'Italia, l'Italia povera che ne consegue. Povera nell'onore, nell'orgoglio, nella conoscenza, e perfino nella grammatica.