Knowledge Quotes

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to... ...

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in... ...

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.