Quotes About Knowledge

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me ...

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The future belongs to the educated.

that pure science searches for the truth without worrying about its practical application,

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge

les trois Critiques qui correspondent, en première approximation à la théorie de la connaissance, à la morale et à l'esthétique.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.

Dopo i politici e i poeti mi rivolsi agli artisti e indovinate che cosa scoprii? Che costoro, coscienti di esercitare bene la propria professione, pensavano di essere sapienti anche in altre cose, magari più importanti e difficili.