One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it under the guidance of His Spirit, and then tries to describe it so that it ministers to His honor.
—Herman Bavinck
“I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.”
“I try to get rid of people who confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.”
— Charlie Munger
A little religion is, it must be confessed, apt to make men gloomy, as a little knowledge to render them vain
—William Wilberforce
“Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge.”
May God help His own people to shine brightly, to flash out of darkness, that men may take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus!
—D. L. Moody
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul?
Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
—Plato
The knowledge of ourselves, in reference to our supernatural end, is no small portion of our wisdom.
—John Owen
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
—Thomas Aquinas
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
“Tablets of stone, though apparently durable, can readily enough be broken, and so can God’s commands; so are they indeed broken every day by us, and those who have the clearest knowledge of the will of God nevertheless offend against him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
—Thomas Aquinas
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
—Voltaire
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin
Love follows knowledge.
—Thomas Aquinas
Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
—Charles Darwin
“One mark of a man’s true wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.
—Immanuel Kant
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
—Immanuel Kant
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
—Plato
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
—Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
—Leonardo Da Vinci