Human Knowledge Quotes

• Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Rule
  • Human Knowledge
  • Human Power

• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Purpose
  • Theories
  • Human Knowledge

• The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Foundation
  • Human Knowledge
  • Human Consciousness

• It is not who has the bigger index. We hear a lot about efforts to index all the artifacts of human knowledge, but the actual bulk of human knowledge lives in people's heads.

  

  Bradley Horowitz
  • Efforts
  • Human Knowledge
  • Index

• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Virtue
  • Creature
  • Human Knowledge

• One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Problem
  • Case
  • Human Knowledge

• Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Truth
  • Existence
  • Human Knowledge

• These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • True
  • Discovered
  • Chains

• In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is an inferior level in just the way of Diana's long shot in the dark while drunk. That shot is inferior in a certain respect if too poorly selected as a hunter's archery shot, even if not quite as poorly selected as would be a shot aimed at the moon. Even if Diana's too risky shot turns out to be apt by attaining success through sublime archery dexterity, it is still inferior in the particular respect of being so risky and hence so poorly selected.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Respect
  • Animal
  • Drunk

• A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Reasoning
  • Presumption
  • Human Knowledge

• A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Successful
  • Account
  • Human Knowledge