Quotes about Knowledge

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

You cannot give what you don't have

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

Even when the angel asks him specifically, "Do you not know what these are?" Zechariah answers with humility, "No, my lord." Had Zechariah not responded with humility and openness, he probably would not have gained much from the whole experience. People who think they know it all already cut themselves off from learning anything new.

Knowledge is power," Francis Bacon said in a peculiarly prophetic moment. He was right; "modern" scientific knowledge has demonstrated its power for three centuries. With postmodernism, however, the situation is reversed. There is no purely objective knowledge, no truth of correspondence. Instead there are only stories, stories that, when they are believed, give the storyteller power over others.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.