Happiness, happiness… There are things much greater than happiness, much deeper and, if you want to know, much more authentic.
It is time for us to know that there is no good where there is no truth.
Know the invisible from the visible.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
To see a wallet and not know what is in it means, seeing, not seeing. Obviously, it is necessary to look twice everywhere: take one into the soul, and the other into the mind.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
To be happy means to know, to find oneself.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
A nation that does not know its history is a nation of the blind.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
—Søren Kierkegaard
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
I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.
—D. L. Moody
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
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
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
We must believe that God is love & that, being love, He cannot harm us but must ever do us good. Then we must throw ourselves before Him & pray with boldness for whatever we know our good & His glory require, and the cost is no object!
—AW Tozer
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
“People don’t know as much as they think they know. Society has a terrible time preparing for things that are remote but are possible and will occur sooner or later.”
“A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business and you know what you are doing, you don’t need very many of them.”
— Warren Buffett
“Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
— Frida Kahlo
“If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
— Warren Buffett
“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome: probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time. That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk.”
— Howard Marks
In a word if you tell me you have a personality problem I am not certain until I know you better whether to say ‘Good!’ or ‘I’m sorry.’ It depends on the reasons. And these, it seems, may be good reasons, or they may be good reasons.
“The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.”
— Ray Dalio
“You have to know what you know—your circle of competence.”
— Joel Greenblatt
Our strange people – both strong and sad… Had heroes – and no one knew them… Always loved freedom – and always lived as a slave… Created the riches of songs – and does not know them…