knowledge Quotes

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.