Quotes about Knowledge
It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
— Abraham Lincoln
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.
— Abraham Lincoln
The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
— Abraham Lincoln
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
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.
— Alain de Botton
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton
We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
— Desmond Tutu
God says Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer