Quotes about Knowledge

skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity.

when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

While God does want to reach our hearts, He does not bypass our minds in the process.

Books: our unfailing companions

Historia magistra vitae est

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.