Quotes About Knowledge

Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,

The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.

People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there's a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Regardless of how helpful an item or body of knowledge may be to society, if it does not have as its final purpose the glory of God, it remains defective.

It is only as we know God in this personal way that we come to trust Him.

In order to trust God we must know Him in an intimate, personal way.

It is more than just knowing facts about God. It is coming into a deeper personal relationship with Him as a result of seeking Him in the midst of our personal pain and discovering Him to be trustworthy.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 PETER 3:18)

Write what you know? No. Write what you can imagine. After all, imagining is knowing—a special kind of knowing that can reveal as much or more truth than our real experience.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Scientists are seldom familiar with the details of research beyond their own discipline.

You may have been paired with someone who doesn't know and tries to mask that lack of knowledge with indifference.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

Empiricism isn't true, and it is time to put away childish things.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.