Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Knowledge

• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Knowledge, Acceptance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd

  "St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Knowledge, Men, Doe

• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

• One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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