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“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”

World Firsts Body Born Existence Knowledge Position Sight Infinite Intellect Infinity Compass Expanse

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”

Men Made Ends Secret Knowledge Seeing Infinite Extremes Infinity Incapable Comprehending

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.”

Knows Wells Order Knowledge Infinite Details Imperfect

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages”

Mind Stills Book Age Action Christian Opinion Knowledge Succeed Infinite Casts Seeds Christian Inspirational Wit Provoking

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

Knows Men Science Social Known Knowledge Scientist Infinite Instance Affected Asylums Unpredictability Inmates

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

Knows Science Knowledge Learning Ignorance Infinite Ignorant Finite Infinite Knowledge

Author:Karl Popper

“Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.”

Looks May Littles Knowledge Infinite Over It Toil Mist Ascending

Book:Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life

Source: Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily Life

“Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.”

“To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.”

Should Matter Knowledge Infinite Details Imperfect Superficial

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.”

Knows Wells Kind May Doe God Science Change Numbers Knowledge Knowing Infinite Odd Infinity Units Finite Untrue Finite Number

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”

Giving Would Be Science Sound Ability Perfect Knowledge Doubt Impossible Ignorance Theory Capacity Infinite Method Convinced Certainty Probability Infinite Knowledge

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.”

“Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.”

Ifs Knows Science Perfect Known Knowledge Knowing One Thing Infinite Conclusion Vain Perceive Presumption

Author:Galileo Galilei