Knowledge Quote by Robert Boyle

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

— Stephen Young

“The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have;…

— John Locke

“Our knowledge leads to a particular awareness that influences how we view and understand things in general.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall…

— John Locke

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

— Chinua Achebe

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as…

— Daniel Dennett

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.”

— Idries Shah

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Familiarity obscures surprises”

— Israel O. Olaniran

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer…

— Huston Smith

“To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to explain, such,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer