Quotes About Knowledge

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

History teaches everything, even the future.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.