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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
—Thomas Aquinas
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
—Sun Tzu
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
—Blaise Pascal
Don’t fear ignorance, don’t fear doubt, don’t fear studying, fear one thing: asserting that you know what you don’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
—Blaise Pascal
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
—Sun Tzu
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
—Sun Tzu
“It ought to fill us with delight to know that we are loved of the Lord, with an everlasting and infinite love, even as Jesus Christ is loved.”
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
—Nikolai Gogol
We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
—William Shakespeare
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
—Voltaire
“Now I know that my Lord Jesus loves me, and that he will never do anything else but love me.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Let us tell him that we will be for him, and not for another: let him know it from us; he delights to hear it, yea, he says, ‘Sweet is our voice, and our countenance is comely;’- and we shall not fail in the issue of sweet refreshment with him.
—John Owen
Let us tell him that we will be for him, and not for another: let him know it from us; he delights to hear it, yea, he says, ‘Sweet is our voice, and our countenance is comely;’- and we shall not fail in the issue of sweet refreshment with him.
—John Owen
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
—Voltaire
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man’s grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
—Blaise Pascal
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
—Nikolai Gogol
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
—Sun Tzu
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
—Sun Tzu
A sense of my unworthiness and unfitness so weighs me down, that I have often thought it would be best for me to retire. But I know these are all suggestions of the enemy. Why should I distrust omnipotence?
—George Whitefield
A sense of my unworthiness and unfitness so weighs me down, that I have often thought it would be best for me to retire. But I know these are all suggestions of the enemy. Why should I distrust omnipotence?
—George Whitefield
I know many of my acquaintance, who love to hear me talk and preach, and who receive me gladly into their houses; but alas! I fear they are self-righteous, and were never yet truly convinced of sin.
—George Whitefield
There is a wide difference between understanding *the doctrine of the Scripture* as in the letter, and a true knowing the mind of Christ.
—John Owen
Be nice to everybody you never know what SOB may become your boss.
—Peter R. Rose