William Lloyd Garrison

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

American Journalist

Martin Seligman

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.

American Psychologist

Simon Greenleaf

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.

American Judge

Joshua Cohen

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.

American Writer

Henry B. Eyring

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

American Leader

George Eliot

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

British Author

Sheila Heti

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

Canadian Writer

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

English Clergyman

Often used to describe a deity's ability to know all in a religious setting.

Religious Context

Implies perfect knowledge, with no errors or gaps.

Absolute Knowledge

In non-religious discussions, 'omniscience' is usually not taken literally.

Not Literal

Used to describe a hypothetical scenario where AI knows everything.

Science Fiction

Considered more as a theoretical concept than an existing state.

Hypothetical Concept

In modern contexts, it's used to describe vast, but not infinite, knowledge.

Figurative Meaning

 that there's an invisible, all-knowing authority who, because of its omniscience, always watches whatever you're doing, which means you never have a private moment, the ultimate enforcer for obedience to its dictates. What all of these seemingly disparate works

Omniscience