Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about your thoughts."William James
"The stream of thought flows on; but the feelings are the stream itself, not something parallel to it."William James
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life is another."William James
"The mind of a person is his primary asset in life."William James
"To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the mind largely supplies."William James
"Knowledge without love is like a bell without a clapper"Charles Wesley
"The wise person knows the limits of their own knowledge"Charles Wesley
"A thought comes when we wish it, and not when we wish it."Friedrich Nietzsche
"The one who does not know the evil will not recognize goodness either."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beware you be not swallowed up in books; an ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."John Wesley
"The greatest evil is ignorance; the greatest good is knowledge rightly applied."John Wesley
"The knowledge of God is higher than the knowledge that is gotten by reading or studying the letter or words."George Fox
"All must come to the Light within, where Christ doth teach His people."George Fox
"Knowledge of God transforms not merely how we think but how we live."Jonathan Edwards
"To know God truly is to experience transformation in every aspect of one's being."Jonathan Edwards
"The mind must be illuminated by the Spirit before it can truly understand divine truth."Jonathan Edwards
"The mind illuminated by grace sees spiritual reality with greater clarity than before."Jonathan Edwards
"The path to wisdom is paved with the honest acknowledgment of our ignorance."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."Jacob Böhme
"True knowledge consists not in theorizing, but in understanding the unity of all things."Jacob Böhme
"We are made up largely of pathways worn into our brains by repeated thought and habit."William James
"The best ideas are common property."William James
"Millions of items in the universe cannot be thought. But we can think only thoughts that correspond to facts."William James
"Knowledge without love is merely empty information."Charles Wesley
"The pursuit of knowledge is never truly complete in a single lifetime."Charles Wesley
"Knowledge shared multiplies; knowledge hoarded diminishes."Charles Wesley
"To know the scriptures, one must know the Spirit of the scriptures."George Fox
"The inner light illuminates all understanding."George Fox
"A man of one book is formidable, but a man of many books may know nothing."John Wesley
"The world is dying for lack of the knowledge of Jesus Christ."John Wesley