D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning. Unless human reasoning is valid, no science can be true.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.