“The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.”
Others on Knowledge
Alfred Whitehead
4 quotes“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thi...”
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.”
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.”
Robert M. Pirsig
3 quotes“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
Isaac Asimov
2 quotes“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
Anne Rice
2 quotes“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Will Durant
2 quotes“All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 quotes“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.”
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.”