Knowledge Quote Generator

“ If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. ”

~Jean-Francois Lyotard

“ One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ”

~Jean-Francois Lyotard

“ Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. ”

~Matthew Simpson

“ If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources. ”

~Matthew Simpson

“ The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. ”

~Matthew Simpson

“ If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. ”

~Matthew Simpson