John Calvin Quotes

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

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

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I came to Christ in my early 20s.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Christ
  • Early
  • Early 20s

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Limits

• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Real
  • Strong

• You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Knowledge

• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge

• The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Mirror

• Isaac Newton only discovered the law of gravity. He didn’t invent it, did he? In the same way, the Knowledge is within you. I can reveal it. I cannot give it to you from somewhere else. … If somebody comes to me I am sure I can give him the Knowledge and he will be satisfied.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Law
  • Knowledge

• The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Knowledge
  • Higher
  • Each Day

• Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Business

• It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Kind
  • Dog
  • Run

• Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

  

  John Calvin
  • Knowledge
  • Christ
  • Taste