Knowledge Quotes

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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who… — Confucius
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with… — Seneca the Younger
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge — Ravi Zacharias
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The only secure knowledge is that I exist. — Rene Descartes
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. — Gottlob Frege
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the… — Gottlob Frege
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz… — Ned Block
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world… — John Searle
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary… — Jerry Fodor
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put… — Jerry Fodor
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.... — G. E. M. Anscombe
...if it isn't literally true that my wanting is causally responsible for my reaching, and my itching is causally responsible for my scratching, and my… — Jerry Fodor
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. — Seneca the Younger

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