Analysis Quote by Aristotle

“The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have;…

— John Locke

In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task…

— Niels Bohr

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers brand new…

— Bryan Johnson

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

— Peter Block

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that…

— Eliza Haywood

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

— Jodi Picoult

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

— David Hawkins

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

— Paulo Coelho