I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge – and many people go to Bible studies and don’t realize it isn’t enough to know what’s right, it’s applying the information and the knowledge that you have. 2.52K
Knowledge of God’s Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. 1.36K
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. 649
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. 600
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. 1.82K
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. 618
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. 2.58K
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. 1.94K
It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. 669
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. 651
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. 948
