Quotes About Knowledge

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

All knowledge is worth having

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Knowledge is justified belief.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.