Knowledge Quotes - Page 15

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

Try to get as much as possible knowledge about the Universe in your life. Because after your death it will decide whether you will become God or reborn as a human to learn remaining knowledge.

You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know-or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.