Quotes About Knowledge

The only thing you have to absolutely know is the location of the library.

The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

The knowledge in not power, power is the imagination!!

É difficile sapere cosa sia la verità, ma a volte è molto facile riconoscere una falsità

L'immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza. La conoscenza è limitata; l'immaginazione abbraccia il mondo

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

While it is true that scientific results are entirely independent from religious or moral considerations, those individuals to whom we owe the great creative achievements of science were all of them imbued with the truly religious conviction that this universe of ours is something perfect and susceptible to the rational striving for knowledge.

It's not gay if you didn't know it was a boy.

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

Science without epistemology is – insofar as it is thinkable at all – primitive and muddled.

and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only be invented. [Letter to Karl Popper; 11 Sep 1939]

Albert Einstein

Every true theorist is a kind of tamed metaphysicist.

As far as our propositions are certain, they do not say anything about reality, and as far as they do say anything about reality, they are not certain Albert Einstein (as cited in Schumpeter, 1991)

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

love of truth and insight which lent wings to the spirit of the Renaissance has grown cold

The only source of knowledge is the experience

All true learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Non ho alcun talento particolare, sono solo appassionatamente curioso.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious

It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Eu não tenho nenhum talento especial. Apenas sou apaixonadamente curioso

Ceux qui ont le privilège de savoir ont le devoir d'agir.