Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

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Human beings, who are almost unique in their ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent aversion to doing so.

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

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Maybe I didn't get where I intended to go, but I think I've ended up where I needed to be.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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Someday science may have human life in its hands, and by causing the world to explode, the human species may incur in collective suicide.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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A teacher works for eternity: no one can say where their influence ends.

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

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A lie would make no sense if the truth were not perceived as dangerous.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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That we don't know what's happening to us: that's what's happening to us.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Science is everything about which there is always room for discussion.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Thought is the only thing in the Universe of which its existence cannot be denied: to deny is to think.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Maximum specialization equals maximum unculturedness.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Science consists of replacing the knowledge that seemed certain with a theory, that is, with something problematic.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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A historian is a prophet in reverse.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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I only offer possible new ways of looking at things.