Quotes about Knowledge

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

5 minutes of learning today is better than no minutes of learning today.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.