“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”
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“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”
“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”