Knowledge Quote by Robert Boyle
“Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered in the clearest expressions, the notions themselves will yet appear obscure.”
About This Quote
Our concepts are often labeled as knowledge yet remain difficult for our limited minds to grasp fully, even when expressed clearly.
In simple terms: Knowledge can be hard to truly understand.
Key Takeaway
Seek deeper clarity beyond surface definitions.
Themes
knowledge
epistemology
human limitation
clarity
understanding
Mood
curious
reflective
skeptical
Type
philosophical
educational
When to use this quote
- academic study
- philosophical debate
- personal learning
- teaching
- research
Key Concepts
cognitive bias
conceptual opacity
intellectual humility
Questions to Reflect On
- How do you test if a concept is truly understood?
- What methods reveal hidden ambiguities?
A Different Perspective
Even clear expression may not resolve inherent complexity.
![“Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall presently into darkness and obscurity, perplexedness and difficulties;and can discover nothing farther but our own blindnessand ignorance.” quote by John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8bc/john-locke-814_darkness_whensoever-we-would-proceed-beyond-the-s_199491.jpg)
![“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy." [William Petty]” quote by Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/carl-zimmer-16331_knowledge_i-never-knew-any-man-who-had-once-tasted_1770.jpg)
