358 Quote by Adam Leith Gollner

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

— Albert Einstein

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

— Adolf Hitler

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

— Adolf Hitler

“at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any…

— Criss Jami

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

— Thomas Carlyle

“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern…

— H.E. Davey

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever”

— Reginald Hill

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence…

— Thomas Aquinas