Quotes About Knowledge

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.