Knows Quote by Rene Descartes

By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

— Miyamoto Musashi

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

— George Soros

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is…

— Alan Lightman

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for…

— Jane Campion

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by…

— Immanuel Kant

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always…

— Tara Stiles

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.…

— Rene Descartes

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

— John Paul Caponigro

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine…

— Albert Einstein

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

— Peter Block

As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

— Frederick Lenz

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is…

— William Henry Hudson