Quotes About Knowledge

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

Il libro è una cosa: lo si può mettere su un tavolo e guardarlo soltanto, ma se lo apri e leggi diventa un mondo." - Leonardo Sciascia

La scienza, come la poesia, si sa che sta ad un passo dalla follia [...]

Le malattie delle persone intelligenti per tre quarti provengono dalla loro intelligenza.

Che resta di una mostra, se non il catalogo?

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.