Avi Quotes

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

The more I see, the less I know.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.