Quotes about Knowledge

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

Notice in that same prophecy, the angel told Daniel that, besides a great increase in knowledge, "many shall run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4). This second sign, a tremendous increase in the distance and speed of travel, would also occur in the same context, that being the end times. God was revealing that, once people begin to run to and fro, both farther and faster, the final years before Christ returns to set up His Millennial Kingdom will finally be upon us.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.