Knowledge Quotes

"The mind creates the structure through which we experience reality."

"The path to wisdom begins with the acknowledgment of one's ignorance."

"Knowledge is power only if it is converted into action."

"In great pain, one learns wisdom slowly."

"The present age is essentially one of understanding, and therefore, in spite of all its knowledge, the more it thinks the less it is capable of action."

"My understanding is that the truth of a proposition consists in the intensity of conviction with which it is held."

"The more consciousness, the more existence."

"With every increase in knowledge comes an increase in sorrow."

"It is a mistake to think the mind has ideas that do not come from sensation."

"We cannot think of anything which we have not perceived."

"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."

"Man's understanding of the world is limited by his senses and his reason."

"The human mind is vast in its capacity but finite in its understanding."

"All our ideas are connected to sensation, either present or remembered."

"We are not passive receivers of ideas but active perceivers."

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters."

"It is one thing to make an idea clear and another to make it distinct."

"There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself."

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

"The aim of mathematics is to discover relations between quantities."

"Knowledge is power over ignorance."

"Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another."

"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."

"The understanding requires concepts to think; sensibility requires intuitions to perceive."

"The mind creates the forms through which experience is possible."

"The understanding is the faculty of principles."

"Understanding requires both concept and intuition working together."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of human endeavors."