Claude Bernard Quotes

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.