Quotes About Knowledge

You wouldn't understand.' Mustard's eyes narrowed. 'We won't know until you try. Just last night, headmaster body was telling me I should learn more about how this school works from star students like you. You remember the headmaster, right? Nice guy, bloods all over the floor upstairs?

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

I also needed to educate myself to North Carolina

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

For no matter how weak she felt, Betsy could wield words as a weapon. When an acquaintance insisted it was impossible to acquire a knowledge of the world without being deeply infected with its vices, she retorted that knowledge was a precaution rather than a trap, "for as soon as [we] have found out where [we] are mostly likely to be overcome, there let [us] place [our] strongest guard.

Beauty flourishes on sorrow. It's enriched by the knowledge that life is fleeting, sometimes cruel, and often ends without resolution.

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Reading can be dangerous.

To learn more about them, people should use you.

Stupidity is not an infection, it's a condition.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Pour vivre heureux, vivons incultes? Je dis non! Vivre heureux, je m'en fous!

Erfahrung ist die Summe der Dummheiten, die man im Bedarfsfall wieder anwendet." [ ARD Morgenmagazin , May 2002]

God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

one who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian.

If we start with such ideas as God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, we will never arrive at a true knowledge of God. However, if we participate by faith in Jesus Christ as the one who "is there for others," we are liberated from self and experience the transcendence that is truly the God of the Bible.

Herein lies the serpent's deceit. Man knows good and evil, but because he is not the origin, because he acquires this knowledge only at the price of estrangement from the origin, the good and evil that he knows are not the good and evil of God but good and evil against God. They are good and evil of man's own choosing, in opposition to the eternal election of God. In becoming like God man has become a god against God.

Why do I meditate? Because I am a Christian. Therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scripture in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved.

It is not surprising, of course, that those who attempt to discredit the evidence of Scripture are the people who themselves do not seriously read, know, or make a thorough study of the Scriptures.