Knowledge Quote by René Descartes

“There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“Every thought you think and every thing shall surely see the thought and work that is not associated with your order.”

— Qasim Ali Shah

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

“I say expressly, that the mind has not an adequate but only a confused knowledge of itself, its own body, and of external bodies,…

— Baruch Spinoza

“And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become words!”

— Mike Dooley

“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.”

— William Faulkner

“And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.”

— René Descartes

“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great fundamental law,…

— Auguste Comte

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,…

— René Descartes

“It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the…

— Lauren DeStefano