Quotes about Knowledge

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself.