Knowledge Quotes

It's not just once or twice, but countless times that the same ideas appear in the world.

Perception starts with the eye.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

All men desire by nature to know.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

Educated people are as different from uneducated people as living people are from the dead.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.