Quotes about Knowledge

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?