Edmund Spenser Quotes

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

To know the world, one must construct it

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

Things were first made, then words.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight.

There is always something new to learn. There is always something new that I am learning and I wanna share it with the world.

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Compose first, worry later.

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.