Quotes About Omniscience

#1. Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

Garry Wills

#2. I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

Rex Stout

#3. It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

Simon Greenleaf

#4. Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.

Criss Jami

#5. I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can.

Rex Stout

#6. God' is a funny word, it implies omnipotence and omniscience. Let me assure, I am neither.

Brian McClellan

#7. The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."

Karen Russell

#9. Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes.

Iain H. Murray

#10. Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Ayn Rand

#11. When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

Henry Ford

#12. Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

Immanuel Kant

#13. Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind - but to the child of God it overflows with consolation.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.

Martin Seligman

#15. Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?

Bertrand Russell

#16. What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Dejan Stojanovic

#18. As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

George Eliot

#20. Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

Henry Eyring

#21. Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Joseph Addison

#22. (M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Dennis McFadden

#23. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

Neal A. Maxwell

#24. God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Peter Kreeft

#25. Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition - The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?

Santideva

#26. Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

Jennifer Lee Carrell

#27. Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#28. The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

George Santayana

#29. "Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Larry Wall

#30. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.

Arthur W. Pink

#31. We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During

Mark Batterson

#32. To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Sissela Bok

#33. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#34. There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith ...

Eliza Leslie

#36. When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it will lead to greater risk-taking. LYONS:

Neal Stephenson

#37. In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Joshua Cohen

#38. The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

Gilbert Highet

#39. Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

Wallace D. Wattles

#40. The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Douglas Coupland

#41. In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#42. Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Sydney Smith

#43. Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue.

Ken Poirot

#44. Omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

Jerome Groopman

#45. Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

Piet Hein

#46. If you don't feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset's future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn't necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

Warren Buffett

#47. It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

Sam Harris

#48. By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#49. In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Gelett Burgess

#50. There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#51. When Allah created me, he knew that I
would drink a lot of wine. So if I didn't, the
omniscience of Allah would stand on its head.

Omar Khayyam

#52. Master," I said, "when the great clarion fades into the voice of thundering Omniscience, what of these agonies? Will they be the same, or more, or less, after the final sentence?

Dante Alighieri

#53. Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

Henry A. Kissinger

#54. It is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years.

Bertrand Russell

#55. It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.

Audrey Niffenegger

#56. Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

Ron Brackin

#58. To say that God is omniscient is to say that He possesses perfect knowledge and therefore has no need to learn. But it is more: it is to say that God has never learned and cannot learn.

A.W. Tozer

#59. Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?

Judy Blume

#60. An omnipotent god can create a being whose acts are known only to itself.

An omniscient god cannot do this.

It would appear, then, that no god can be both omnipotent and omniscient.

Richard R. LA Croix

#61. To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Mark Batterson

#62. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Edmund Burke

#63. God's wisdom is like the rainbow, in symmetry, beauty, and variety. He does not paint scenes merely in black and white, but uses a riot of colour from the heavenly palette in order to show the wonder of His wise dealings with His people. - Sinclair Ferguson

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#64. Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

Harold Bloom

#65. Man has only wisdumb to gain knowledge but God alone has wisdom, for he possesses all knowledge past, present and future and there is not one iota of knowledge that he does not possess or will not possess.

C.R. Lord

#66. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Harold Bloom

#67. Remember that thought is speech before God.

Charles Spurgeon

#68. There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.

Kevin Thoman