Knowledge Quotes

"There are three grades of clearness in our apprehension of a proposition."

"The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know."

"Doubt is the key to all knowledge."

"The purpose of a sign is to bring the mind into a relation with something beyond the sign itself."

"All the knowledge we possess is but the fruit of past experience."

"The true method of knowledge is to make a beginning in a small way."

"Every body of knowledge develops in complexity and specialization."

"Knowledge is a species of representation."

"Every act of consciousness is intentional—it is always directed toward an object."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something; it has a directedness that defines it."

"The transcendental ego stands at the center of all intentional acts."

"The objects of consciousness are never given all at once, but only in profiles and aspects."

"To understand the present, we must understand how consciousness constitutes it."

"Intentionality is the fundamental feature that distinguishes consciousness from mere physical processes."

"Every act of understanding involves a leap beyond what is immediately given."

"The mind does not mirror reality; it constitutes reality through its synthetic acts."

"Attention is not a passive reception but an active constitution of the object's presence."

"The reduction is not a negation of the world but an opening to its true significance."

"The appearance of an object always surpasses what is immediately presented."

"The transcendental method reveals that all knowledge is ultimately self-knowledge."

"Becoming conscious is a process of constant self-revision and self-understanding."

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed, yet we are also those who carry out the analysis."

"Language is the primordial dimension in which understanding first occurs."

"Understanding is not a possession we have but a mode of our being."

"We speak our everyday language without reflecting on what language itself does."

"We are always interpreting the world; pure observation is a philosophical fiction."

"We are always already interpreting our world through culturally inherited meanings."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he poses the right question."

"The only true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing."