Knowledge Quotes

"Truth emerges not from consensus, but from the collision of honest perspectives."

"We inherit our first truths from others, but must earn the right to our own."

"The gap between what we believe and what we know is often filled with fear."

"We underestimate how much of our thinking is actually the thinking of others."

"We mistake the weight of numbers for the weight of evidence."

"The individual who resists the group serves science more than the individual who surrenders to it."

"The more we know, the more we realize how much we do not know."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of infinity."

"Psychology must become objective if it is to be a true science."

"Language is a conditioned response like any other."

"Introspection is the enemy of psychological science."

"Memory is the trace of previous conditioning in the nervous system."

"Language learning demonstrates the power of stimulus-response conditioning."

"It is so hard to believe that something so obvious could be overlooked."

"Mathematics is not discovered, but invented."

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

"A question has meaning only within a system."

"To understand a sentence means to understand a language."

"We are motivated to understand ourselves and the world around us in ways that make sense."

"The mind is an interpreter, not a recorder of reality."

"We select, interpret, and distort information to fit our existing worldview."

"We interpret new information in light of what we already believe."

"We are all motivated theorists, constantly building explanations of why people do what they do."

"The mind creates coherence by selectively attending to information."

"The mind is always at work making sense of experience."

"We select information that confirms our existing beliefs and reject information that contradicts them."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch"

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."

"To understand others is to have knowledge; to understand yourself is true insight."