Wisdom Quotes

"Necessity springs from the nature of things, not external constraint"

"To reason well is to be human."

"Virtue is a matter of habit."

"Logic is the art of non-contradiction."

"Wisdom grows with age."

"To understand the world, we must first understand our own limitations in perceiving it."

"The deepest wisdom often comes from the simplest observations."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change perspective."

"The relationship between mind and world is more intimate than Descartes imagined."

"Natural kind terms owe their reference to the world, not to our representations."

"Authority and expertise are distributed across communities in complex ways."

"Learning is not acquiring internal representations but joining a community of thinkers."

"The brain is just one component in an extended cognitive system."

"The whole is informationally richer than the sum of its isolated parts."

"Conceptual relativism need not collapse into the view that anything goes."

"Yet despite incommensurability, later theories often better satisfy our explanatory standards."

"Deductive validity is necessary but not sufficient for good reasoning in practice."

"Yet human cognition frequently deviates from Bayesian ideals in systematic ways."

"The relationship between deliberation and intuition is one of partnership."

"Attention is a scarce resource that must be allocated strategically."

"We can accept a theory without believing it is true."

"Empirical adequacy is a more modest aim than truth."

"The distinction between entity and fiction may be less sharp than we think."

"Experience shapes our understanding more fundamentally than abstract theorizing."

"The empirical success of a theory does not guarantee its truth."

"Scientific realism asks us to believe more than the evidence warrants."

"Understanding is primarily about coherence with our experience, not correspondence to reality."

"The phenomenal world is the only world we can responsibly claim to know."

"We should be suspicious of theories that claim access to the absolutely real."

"The boundary between observation and theory is drawn by pragmatic considerations."