“We think in generalities but we live in detail.”
More from Alfred Whitehead on Knowledge
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”
“Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”
Others on Knowledge
Hippocrates
4 quotes“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
Socrates
4 quotes“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
Robert M. Pirsig
3 quotes“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Jorge Luis Borges
3 quotes“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
Plutarch
2 quotes“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Simone Weil
2 quotes“Pain is the root of knowledge.”
John Locke
2 quotes“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to delive...”
Douglas Adams
2 quotes“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
T. S. Eliot
2 quotes“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”