Knowledge Quotes

"The sources of knowledge are many, but they all flow into the same river of understanding."

"Our knowledge is a drop; our ignorance is an ocean."

"All human knowledge is provisional."

"Knowledge is not something pure and sedate, it is a kind of chaos."

"Theory-laden observation is still observation, but it is observation from a particular perspective."

"Every method has limitations that its practitioners refuse to acknowledge."

"Every act of understanding is an act of creation."

"The boundaries of disciplines are human constructs, not natural divisions."

"Intelligence is the ability to hold contradictory ideas and still function."

"We cannot avoid the web of our own making."

"Synonymy is more elusive than we typically assume."

"Vagueness is a feature, not a bug, of human language."

"Belief systems form a network, not a hierarchy."

"Objects are bundles of properties we have learned to perceive together."

"We revise our most cherished beliefs only under pressure."

"Sensory experience underdetermines the world we construct."

"The web of belief anchors itself in sensory experience."

"Knowledge is justified true belief—or so it seemed to tradition."

"Epistemology without psychology is epistemology without content."

"Concepts carve reality only as finely as our purposes require."

"The web of belief extends from sensory periphery to theoretical core."

"Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about human choices and decisions."

"I am trying to understand how the human mind works."

"Knowledge is power, but only action is success."

"Several economists of great ability have disagreed with the main teachings of Keynes."

"Statistical data are useful when dealing with large numbers of people."

"The human mind is the ultimate resource."

"Understanding human action is the foundation of all social science."

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."

"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, among them the capacity to use language."