That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.
Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.