Quotes Concerning Knowledge A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works; indeed, he certainly won’t know how it works until he’s accepted it.
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
For the attainment of divine knowledge we are directed to combine a dependence on God’s Spirit with our own researches. Let us, then, not presume to separate what God has thus united.
Charles Simeon (1759–1836)
All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
William Harvey (1578–1657)
By our anti-intellectualism, in which we either refuse or cannot be bothered to listen to God’s Word, we may be storing up for ourselves the judgment of Almighty God. . . . God has constituted us thinking beings; he has treated us as such by communicating with us in words; he has renewed us in Christ and given us the mind of Christ; and he will hold us responsible for the knowledge we have.
John R. W. Stott (1921– )
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
If I only had three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.
Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895–1960)
I am not young enough to know everything.
Sir James M. Barrie (1860–1937)
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers.
James Grover Thurber (1894–1961)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace. . . . Knowledge is given us to be used, to lead us to higher worship, greater faith, deeper holiness, better service.
John R. W. Stott (1921– )
Knowledge is power, but the unnecessary display of it is weakness.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper (1731–1800)
Knowledge of nature and atheism are incompatible. To know nature is to know that there must be a God.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
Man knows much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler (1870–1937)
Our knowledge, compared with God’s, is ignorance.
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
Strange how much you’ve got to know before you know how little you know.
The first temptation that came to . . . us was the promise of learning and knowledge.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533–1592)
The true knowledge of God will result, not in our being puffed up with conceit at how knowledgeable we are, but in our falling on our faces before God in sheer wonder and crying, “O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unscrutable his ways!” Whenever our knowledge becomes dry or leaves us cold, something has gone wrong.
John R. W. Stott (1921– )
There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things, and the end of things.
Welsh Proverb
Things human must be known to be loved; things divine must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Those who would know much and love little, will remain ever at the beginning of a godly life. . . . Simple love, with even but little knowledge, can do great things.
Saint Mechthild of Magdeburg (c. 1210–c. 1280)
We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
