Our Knowledge Quotes
262 quotes by 214 authors
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the…
— Auguste Comte
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an…
— August Kekule
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Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every…
— Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
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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
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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
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...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
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The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.
— Dwight L. Moody
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As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
— Barbara W. Winder
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When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to…
— Cecil O. Samuelson
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If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed…
— Peter Singer
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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations…
— Freeman Dyson
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Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and…
— J. Allen Hynek
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The gift of faith is a priceless spiritual endowment... Our faith is centered in God our Father, and Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer. It…
— Neil L. Andersen
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But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map…
— Tony DiTerlizzi
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
— Sigmund Freud
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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
— Immanuel Kant
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All our knowledge begins with the senses,
— Immanuel Kant
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
— George Henry Lewes
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