“Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.”
Others on Knowledge
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...”