Quotes about Knowledge

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it's such an interesting world.

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.