Famous Quotes About knowledge

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.