Quotes about Knowledge

The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.

The Bible says we were dead in our "trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1) and "were by nature children of wrath" (2:3, emphasis added). In other words, we were born physically alive but spiritually dead. We had neither the presence of God in our lives nor the knowledge of His ways.

We can know all about God, but not know Him at all. We

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him—but the parts he did understand!)

Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton.)

We should have some other collection of knowledge, then, to balance that one out — its inverse, its inner lining, everything we don't know, all the things that can't be captured in any index, can't be handled by any search engine. For the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word — you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

To know is not less than to feel.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.