Knowledge Quotes

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer... ...

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

Just as bats can't see well in bright daylight, our reason struggles to grasp things that are naturally most obvious.

Human beings are curious by nature.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature