Quotes about Knowledge

We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.