“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
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Hippocrates
4 quotes“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
Socrates
4 quotes“All I know is that I do not know anything”
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.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
2 quotes“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
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.”
John Locke
2 quotes“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to delive...”