Quotes about Knowledge
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
— Martin Luther
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
— Marquis de Sade
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
— Martin Luther
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
— Martin Luther
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
— Martin Luther
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
— Martin Luther
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
— Martin Luther
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.
— Martin Luther
The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments...
— Martin Luther
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.
— Martin Luther
To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.
— Martin Luther