Quotes About Knowledge

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

Philosophy is the highest music.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

History should be written as philosophy.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.