Pastoral Resources

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.