Quotes About Knowledge

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Are you wiser in God (now) than you were last year at this time? Peter says we're to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.