"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge,……" — Karl Popper

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."

— Karl Popper

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119 Quotes by Karl Popper

Karl Popper has 119 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a…
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as…
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of…
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and…
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and…
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp.…
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its…
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with…
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to…
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only…

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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