Pastoral Resources

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

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.