Knowledge Quotes

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant." "In scientific thought, a process of verification arises out of the necessity of resolving the divergence of experience from the pre-established framework of knowledge " "Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate " "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality" "Science brings us closer to the truth than does any other human activity." "The more you know, the more you can create, there's no end to imagination in the kitchen" "All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing. Yes, I think it was the happiest day of my life." "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us" "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes" "Truth is what works." "The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one." "The development of knowledge is a continual restructuring that leads towards new types of equilibrium" "The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable." "Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon" "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." "Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." "Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know the impossibility of deciding." "The further one goes, the less one knows" "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge."