Knowledge Quotes

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will" "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom" "Even the very wise cannot see all ends" "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant." "In scientific thought, a process of verification arises out of the necessity of resolving the divergence of experience from the pre-established framework of knowledge " "Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate " "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality" "Science brings us closer to the truth than does any other human activity." "The more you know, the more you can create, there's no end to imagination in the kitchen" "All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing. Yes, I think it was the happiest day of my life." "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us" "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes"