Philosophy Quote by Karen Armstrong

“Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and important, and…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“ No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.”

— Sorin Cerin

“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I was never good at telling intelligent people from mere self-confident fools, the know-it-alls, because I didn’t and couldn’t know, growing up, that, of…

— Mikhail Iossel

Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man…

— Lord Byron

“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have…

— Isaac Asimov

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something…

— Connie Brockway

“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Socrates: " All I know is that I know nothing". Paraphrase: All I know is that I have nothing and others don't even have it.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of…

— John M. Tyler

“Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant –…

— Plato