Knowledge Quotes

"A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." .......... Alexander Pope


"Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterwards based on such principles was highly doubtful: and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if I desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences." .......... Rene Descartes


"There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation." .......... Leonardo da Vinci


"Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. ... All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education." .......... Jean Jacques Rousseau


"Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts form experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality." .......... Albert Einstein


"It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that ain't so!" .......... Mark Twain


"As scientists who are interested in studying people's mental models, we must develop appropriate experimental methods and discard our hopes of finding neat, elegant mental models, but instead learn to understand the messy, sloppy, incomplete, and indistinct structures that people actually have." .......... Donald A. Norman


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