3 Denis Diderot Quotes on Learning

Denis Diderot quotes on learning

36. Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

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.

57. Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.