Quotes about Knowledge

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Regardless of how helpful an item or body of knowledge may be to society, if it does not have as its final purpose the glory of God, it remains defective.

In order to trust God we must know Him in an intimate, personal way.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.