Francois Lelord Quotes

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I believe in order to understand

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.