Thomas Carlyle Quotes

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

We see only what we know.

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.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

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.

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

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

I think perception is important.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

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

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

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

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