Quotes about Knowledge

Reply to Objection 1: The reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named, is because His essence is above all that we understand about God, and signify in word. Reply to Objection 2: Because we know and name God from creatures, the names we attribute to God signify what belongs to material creatures, of which the knowledge is natural to us.

Reply to Objection 3: From effects not proportionate to the cause no perfect knowledge of that cause can be obtained. Yet from every effect the existence of the cause can be clearly demonstrated, and so we can demonstrate the existence of God from His effects; though from them we cannot perfectly know God as He is in His essence.

It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity.

when truth goes, the authority of the gospel is undermined, because the gospel tells us all about the Truth.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.