Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Libraries can take the place of God.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'

Make a destination of the greater truth.

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.