Quotes about Knowledge
People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.
- John Ortberg
I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.
- Francine Rivers
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
- James Madison
I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
- Joseph Brodsky
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
- Joseph Brodsky
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
- Jurgen Moltmann
When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
- Karl Barth
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
- John Newton
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
- John Wesley
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson