Quotes About Knowledge

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.

we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

original topics of research that those who stay cloistered in their ivory towers could never imagine.

we use math not because we're smart, but because we aren't smart enough.

decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.

knowledge, data processing, and creativity are going to be at the heart of creating value.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

There is nothing less scientific than to deny something because it cannot be explained.