A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Thomas Carlyle

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Faith Increases Just Knowledge Ratio

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Thomas Carlyle

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Thomas Malthus

The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

Horace Mann

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

David Weinberger

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

John Gresham Machen

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

George William Curtis

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Vera Rubin

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Vera Rubin

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.