Knowledge Quotes

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Those who know how to do things, do them. Those who truly understand things, teach them.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

All humans naturally want to know things.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits