Quotes About Knowledge

The things you don't know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves

Knowing too much about the future made things more complicated, not less.

Life is trade; we trade our labour for its fruit, we trade hours of study for knowledge, we trade pleasure for pleasure or sometimes for wealth, security, or offspring.

She knows our rates.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

Enlightenment is man's exodus from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is the inability to use one's understanding without the guidance of another person..'Dare to Know'(sapere aude) Have the courage to use your own understanding;this is the motto of the Enlightenment.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.