Quotes about Knowledge

Notice in that same prophecy, the angel told Daniel that, besides a great increase in knowledge, "many shall run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4). This second sign, a tremendous increase in the distance and speed of travel, would also occur in the same context, that being the end times. God was revealing that, once people begin to run to and fro, both farther and faster, the final years before Christ returns to set up His Millennial Kingdom will finally be upon us.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Members of Christian churches continue to think small thoughts of God and great thoughts of man. This state of affairs reveals that too many Christians have neglected their first great calling: to know their God. Every Christian is meant to be a theologian in the best and most intimate sense of the word. If churches are to prosper in health, church members must be committed to being biblical theologians in whatever capacity they can. This is the second mark of a healthy church member.

The one who is sufficient for the life and work of the ministry is the one who "lives the life of faith and prayer" and who seeks to fill "his head [with] all knowledge and his heart with all holiness" in pursuit of his Lord.

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.

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.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

i am part of everything that i have read

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

Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?" Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.