Quotes about Knowledge

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

In his famous Letters and Papers from Prison, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: how wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.

The God of the Bible was Lord over everything, over every scientific discovery. He was Lord over not just what we did not know, but over what we knew and were discovering through science.

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.