Knowledge Quotes

"What is the foundation of mathematics, geometry, or architecture? Certainly not the abstract sciences, but human convenience and utility."

"The more we know, the more we realize how little we know."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"I think, therefore I am is the first principle of philosophy."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly to any single sense or instrument."

"Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu."

"Understanding is a kind of sensation."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"All sciences are connected; they share a common trunk."

"The pursuit of knowledge is a journey without end."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The mind is, as it were, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas."

"Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, a man is bound to be ignorant of many things."

"The understanding is employed in the discovery of truth."

"No one is born learned; all knowledge is acquired."

"Knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit."

"Whoever seeks knowledge seeks to draw near to God."

"The night of ignorance is dispelled only by the light of knowledge."

"Knowledge separated from morality becomes a dangerous instrument."

"The educated person questions everything, accepts nothing without evidence."

"To act without understanding is to move blindly through a dark room."

"The account of creation is not to be taken literally."

"Knowledge without application is sterile accumulation."

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

"The human mind is like a blank tablet upon which experience writes."

"We must derive all our knowledge from experience and from reason reflecting upon experience."

"The power of language lies in its ability to represent the infinite with the finite."

"To act without understanding is to stumble in darkness."

"The mind's highest good is the knowledge of God; the mind's highest virtue is to know God."