Epistemology Quote by Paul Ryan

I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my…

— Paul Ryan

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

— Geoff Dyer

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find…

— Richard Dawkins

“The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She…

— Peter Boghossian

“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked…

— G.K. Chesterton

“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely…

— Matt Taibbi

“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need…

— Lindsay Carricarte-Jones

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer…

— Gregory Bateson

“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of…

— Thomas Merton

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are…

— Christopher Hitchens

“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson