Quotes about Knowledge

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit

O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.

The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.