“The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.” AnswersKnowledgeHardestSimplest Author:Northrop Frye
“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” GodChristianReligionCausesEasyReligiousAnswersWonderChristianityLordKnowledgeMysteryObjectsTasksChristian InspirationalQuestioningBishopsEasy Answers Book:The Orthodox Way Source: The Orthodox Way
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.” SaidDoneChangeAnswersKnowledgeHeardExampleCircumstancesConscienceDaringSmallestIndifferent Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.” KnowsAnswersKnowledge Book:Writings, 1932-1946 Source: Writings, 1932-1946
“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.” PeopleKnowsSeemsAnswersKnowledgeHeardIgnoranceGoes OnOffersIgnorantInstanceWorldlySeemingAdvisable Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.” MenMindIdeasReasonCharacterScienceWhiteAnswersKnowledgeMaterialsPaperExperienceBusyStoresEndlessVarietyFancyVoidOne WordBoundlessWhite Paper Author:John Locke