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  • Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. -- Wallace D. Wattles
  • "Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. -- Larry Wall
  • Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else. -- Jennifer Lee Carrell
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. -- Sydney Smith
  • Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. -- George Eliot
  • Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience. -- Henry Eyring
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. -- Immanuel Kant
  • The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity. -- Gilbert Highet
  • What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. -- Ayn Rand
  • In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience. -- Gelett Burgess
  • It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. -- Sam Harris
  • There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
  • 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
  • Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty! -- Stephen Charnock
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything. -- Alberto Manguel
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