5 Denis Diderot Quotes on Knowledge

Denis Diderot quotes on knowledge

4. Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

25. I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

31. On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la verite, mais non que je la trouve.

46. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

64. All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.