Quotes about Knowledge

We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

The precedence of faith over knowledge. "When at Sinai Israel said we shall do and we shall hear (instead of saying, we shall hear and we shall do), a heavenly voice went forth and exclaimed,"Who has revealed to My children this mystery, which the ministering angels enact, to fulfill His word before they hear the voice."

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.