Quotes About Knowledge

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of knowledge & true morality. Yes; it has come to this! Men who openly confess that they can form no idea of God, & only know him through created things, of which they know not the causes, can unblushingly accuse philosophers of Atheism.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

In so far as we understand, we can desire nothing but that which must be, nor, in an absolute sense, can we find contentment in anything but truth.

A passion seizes to be a passion as soon as we form a clear idea of it.

El alma humana, cuantas veces percibe las cosas según el orden común de la naturaleza, no tiene conocimiento adecuado ni de sí misma, ni de su cuerpo, ni de los cuerpos exteriores, sino tan solo un conocimiento confuso y mutilado

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.

Si existiese un dios o algún ser omnisciente, este ser no podría forjar absolutamente ficción alguna

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation.

Get wise, youse guys!

Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence.

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

My ten year old son, at this point, can go into the kitchen and, without a recipe, make cookie dough of some kind. It's not the same every time, but he just knows what it looks like, which is a lot earlier than I ever was involved. I mean, I could make, out of a package brownies and cakes, but not just wing it together. He might be a visionary.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."

Those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.