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Quotes About Knowledge

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
~ Peter Boghossian
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
~ William A. Dembski
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
~ James D. Watson
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
~ Umberto Eco
Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
~ David Brewster
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
~ Steve Allen
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.
~ David Eller
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.
~ Pete Hautman
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
~ Bruce Feiler
There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.
~ Ray Davies
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
~ Robert A. Burton
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
~ Blaise Pascal
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
~ Bob Dylan
Science has taken away our religion.
~ Bryan Appleyard
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
~ Alexander Pope
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.
~ Abhijit Naskar
We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…" Lone Walk From Panther Creek.
~ Kat Kaelin
God is light.God is knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it's about knowing people, all of the time, it's about knowing God!
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.
~ Richard Gist