personal development on Curse of Knowledge

In 1990, Elizabeth Newton earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford by studying a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles: “tappers” or “listeners.” Tappers received a list of twen...

Knowledge is power

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Knowledge, not improved and well employed, will only increase our condemnation at the last day.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will dep...

Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riche...

This is the ultimate in human knowledge of God: to know that we do not know Him.

Knowledge has to do with the interrelation of humans and the created world. This brings it within the sphere of the biblical belief that humans are made in the image of the creator, and that in conseq...

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

At a dinner party, [The Scottish playwright George Bernard] Shaw sat next to a young man who proved to be a bore of historic proportions. After suffering through a seemingly interminable monologue, Sh...

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the cour...

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how t...

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys...

The knowledge of good and evil seems to be the aim of all ethical reflection. The first task of Christian ethics is to invalidate this knowledge.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”