Quotes About Knowledge

The theory of knowledge is inseparable from the theory of life. They must unite so that each may move the other forward.

Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the object itself by an effort of intuition.

We have read as many texts as possible.

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could].

If youth but know, And old age only could.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

a point of arrival for existing knowledge and a point of departure for a new study and new projects: complete urbanization. The hypothesis is anticipatory. It prolongs the fundamental tendency of the present. Urban society is gestating in and through the "bureaucratic society of controlled consumption.

Je vais te montrer un secret.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

Reality always falls short of essence. Every child knows that.

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

Although no man can know everything, everyone ought nevertheless to work with a view of enriching the common treasury of knowledge, and in the degree to which he is conscious of this collaboration, the result of his effort will endure and be useful.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science is facts.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.