Knowledge Quotes

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is... ...

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known... ...

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

No science ever defends its first principles.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would... ...

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.