Quotes About Perspective

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

Knowledge is never too dear.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

for whenever men are right they are not young

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?