Revival occurs when those who think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it.
Problems only exist in the human mind.
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.
True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
Science. . . looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning. "
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is. . . In knowledge there is power.
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief. . . but hope
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.