I know that I have lived because I have felt and feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward and is a factory of new knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

It is not knowledge but the act of learning not possession but the act of getting there which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel you hinder people from getting to reality.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and dominion.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.