Knowledge Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine

Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing…

— Ludwik Fleck

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common…

— Francis Bacon

What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees…

— Hilary Kornblith

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has…

— Walter Lippmann

“As we have seen, the modern mind has a distorted image of itself that leads it to neglect some of its own most valuable…

— Guy Claxton

“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in…

— David Brooks

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

— Jean Toomer

When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a…

— Wolfgang Pauli

“Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in…

— Q. M. Sidd

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

— Ludwik Fleck