knowledge Quotes

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.