[M]any believed but few knew very much.
Reference to believers in medieval Christendom.
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.
Matt Rosendale doesn't know what the hell is going on in Montana. That's why he doesn't talk about the issues he believes in, because he doesn't know them.
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.