Quotes about Knowledge

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.

Secondly, barbarous as these poor heathens are, they appear to be as capable of knowledge as we are; and in many places, at least, have discovered uncommon genius and tractableness; and I greatly question whether most of the barbarities practiced by them, have not originated in some real or supposed affront, and are therefore, more properly, acts of self-defence, than proofs of inhuman and blood-thirsty dispositions.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.