LACK OF KNOWLEDGE PEOPLE PERISH

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ? Stephen Hawking

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.” ? Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” ? Hermann Hesse, Demian

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it’s the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”  ? Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” ? Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ? John Locke

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.” ? Blaise Pascal