Epistemology Quotes
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Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
— Felix Alba-Juez
Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.
— Raheel Farooq
A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
— Raheel Farooq
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
— Immanuel Kant
The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.
— Jerry A. Fodor
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
— Felix Alba-Juez
In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.
— Sam Waterston
Is language the adequate expression of all realities?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, I don't know why people insist on knowing themselves. It's hard enough to know what to wear.
— John Leguizamo
To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.
— Bernard J.F. Lonergan
Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.
— Kenneth A. Bruffee
... every feeling is the perception of a truth ...
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
— Immanuel Kant
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
— Felix Alba-Juez
Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.
— Ashim Shanker
And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.
— Samuel Beckett
First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.
— John K. Brown
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
— Baruch Spinoza
If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
— Felix Alba-Juez
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
— T. S. Eliot
We often know information but not the epistemology of that information.
— Debasish Mridha
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
— Gregory Bateson
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
— Baruch Spinoza
Epistemology models ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
— Robert Anton Wilson
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason
if you pick the proper postulates. — Isaac Asimov
if you pick the proper postulates. — Isaac Asimov
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
— Imre Lakatos
Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
— Felix Alba-Juez
Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause (Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium).
— Baruch Spinoza
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.
— Anthony Doerr
The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
— Felix Alba-Juez
The heart cannot rejoice in that which the mind rejects
— Kenneth D. Boa
But here's the maddening thing about knowledge. We don't know that we don't know something until we know it.
— Patty Houser
Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode
— Thomas Aquinas
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
— Guido Molinari
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Observations always involve theory.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
— Paul Valery
It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge. — Kedar Joshi
condition for knowledge. — Kedar Joshi
ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion
— Patricia Crone
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
— Isaac Asimov
The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
— Kedar Joshi
Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.
— Patty Houser
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientist alone is true poet.
— Allen Ginsberg
If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.
— Raheel Farooq
Why should things be easy to understand?
— Thomas Pynchon
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.
— John K. Brown
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
— Oscar Wilde
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
— Baruch Spinoza
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
— Jostein Gaarder
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
— Patty Houser
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
— Jean Piaget
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
— Herbert Marcuse
Explanation is where the mind rests.
— David Hume