Knowledge Proofs

Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or proofs:

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)