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Human understanding Quotes

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"

"We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom"

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity"

"Our senses, as they are the original inlets of all our knowledge, so they are the sources of all the errors and mistakes that we fall into in the pursuit of knowledge"

"All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."

"We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

"What men call knowledge is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances"

"Only beings who do not believe in the invisible can offer an explanation for everything"