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.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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