Another Quote by Emile Durkheim

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

— Samuel Johnson

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually…

— Paul Feyerabend

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished…

— Hilary Kornblith

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like…

— Francis Bacon

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

— L. Ron Hubbard

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

— Talcott Parsons

And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire…

— John Donne

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

— Zhuangzi

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

— Alvin Toffler