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Socrates
4 quotes“All I know is that I do not know anything”
Hippocrates
4 quotes“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
Alfred Whitehead
4 quotes“We think in generalities but we live in detail.”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Robert M. Pirsig
3 quotes“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
Jorge Luis Borges
3 quotes“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
John Locke
2 quotes“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to delive...”
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.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Anne Rice
2 quotes“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 quotes“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.”