Charles Spurgeon Quotes

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

How did they know?.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

Not all questions can be answered.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.