Knowledge Quotes

"The meaning of a concept is determined by its role in a system of concepts."

"To understand what is said requires understanding what is not said."

"Every concept carries within it a history of human thought and experience."

"Understanding is not a destination but a process of continual refinement."

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to observe how it does it."

"A main source of our failure to understand is that we do not command a clear view of the use of our words."

"The propositions of logic are tautologies."

"What is the relation between a name and the thing named?"

"The elementary propositions of logic show the logical scaffolding of the world."

"For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word 'meaning,' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"One cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connection with other things."

"A question has meaning only in so far as an answer to it is possible."

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

"Objects may be mentioned in a proposition even if the name stands for nothing."

"To ask the question 'What is meaning?' is to ask the question 'What is language?'"

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely expensive information."

"Knowledge is information that has been integrated into understanding."

"The structure of reality is often hidden beneath our ordinary assumptions."

"The universe's architecture is a philosophical puzzle we are still assembling."

"The concrete world demands a metaphysics worthy of its complexity."

"Our theories about reality must account for both the obvious and the hidden."

"Questions about existence are never truly settled; they are refined."

"We construct our understanding of reality brick by brick, concept by concept."

"Reality's blueprint is written in a language we are still learning to read."

"We inherit the world as it is, but we understand it through our concepts."

"Objects and their properties form a unity we struggle to understand."

"We are pattern-seeking creatures imposing order on a perhaps chaotic reality."

"The relation between whole and part is fundamental to all understanding."

"The world contains multitudes, and our theories must accommodate them."