Quotes About Knower

God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

All knowledge arises from a relationship between a knower and an object of knowledge.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

God is the Knower and not the sufferer of pain.

Rabbi, Rabbeinu Tam, states that: the soul is the knower of the known.  In other words, the soul is the small voice beyond the mind that impels the conscious mind to think, feel or act.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.

Man is the knower in the same language in which God is creator. God created him in his image, he created the knower in the image of the creator.

Insight isn't informational; it is transformational. It is a knowing event. A change transpires. Understanding this distinction makes a big difference to all our knowing ventures. The moment of insight transforms the knower, the known, and the knowing.

I have come to believe we should think of knower and known as persons in relationship, where knowing is the relationship. This relationship has covenantal dimensions. By that I mean that the knower pledges her- or himself to the yet-to-be-known, the way a groom pledges himself to a bride.

Know that all that is," Bagger Vance's voice came again as if in a dream, "flows from the union of the Field and the Knower.

Knowledge of what? If, as Epicurus insisted, the what is unknowable, Walt's knowledge is a personal gnosis, in which the knower himself is known by whatever can be known.

I am the dreamer and the doer I the hearer and the knower I the giver and the taker I the sword and the wound of sword. If this be true, then let sword fall free from hand. I embrace myself. I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile ...

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

But the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower. Hence the knowledge of every knower is ruled according to its own nature. If therefore the mode of anything's being exceeds the mode of the knower, it must result that the knowledge of the object is above the nature of the knower. Now the mode of being of things is manifold.

But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust.

The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in each individual knower at birth. It also rejects empiricism: Knowledge does not consist of epistemic pieces impressed on the knower by the environment, whether physical or social. Instead, the knower has to construct knowledge.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

St. Thomas Aquinas said it neatly and powerfully centuries ago: "Things known are in the knower according to the mode of the knower.