Edmund Burke Quotes

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

Facts are often complicated.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Clarity breeds mastery.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.