Quotes About Knowledge

But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my opinion, for I found myself bogged down in so many doubts and errors, that it seemed to me that having set out to become learned, I had derived no benefit from my studies, other than that of progressively revealing to myself how ignorant I was.

it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.

Je puis me persuader d'avoir été fait tel par la nature que je puisse aisément me tromper même dans les choses que je crois comprendre avec le plus d'évidence et de certitude.

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is.

we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

they who make pretensions to philosophy are often less wise and reasonable than others who never applied themselves to the study

For I found myself involved in so many doubts and errors, that I was convinced I had advanced no farther in all my attempts at learning, than the discovery at every turn of my own ignorance. And

I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.

I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

the more uncommon often only mislead us so long as the causes of the more ordinary are still unknown;

Nothing can be imagined which is too strange or incredible to have been said by some philosopher.

la lectura de todos los buenos libros es como una conversación con los mejores ingenios de los pasados siglos

Mais lorsqu'on emploie trop de temps à voyager, on devient enfin étranger en son pays; et lorsqu'on est trop curieux des choses qui se pratiquoient aux siècles passés, on demeure ordinairement fort ignorant de celles qui se pratiquent en celui-ci.

Science in its entirety is true and evident cognition.

Right understanding is the most equally divided thing in the World; for every one beleevs himself so well stor'd with it, that even those who in all other things are the hardest to be pleas'd, seldom desire more of it then they have; wherein it is not likely that all Men are deceived:

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree

y que dice que nada hay en el entendimiento que no haya estado antes en el sentido

Tüm yöntem akl?n birtak?m gerçeklere varmak için çabas?n? yönlendirmek zorunda olduÄŸu konular?n s?ras?na ve konumuna dayan?r. Bunu sürdürebilmek için güçlük içeren ve muÄŸlak önermeleri aÅŸamal? olarak daha basite indirgemek, sonra da bunlar?n sezgisinden hareket ederek ayn? ÅŸekilde diÄŸer önermelerin bilgisine varmak gerekir.

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

Viver sem filosofia é exatamente como ter os olhos fechados sem nunca procurar abri-los.

De wortel is metafysica, de stam is fysica en de takken die daaruit voorkomen, zijn alle andere wetenschappen.