Quote#Wisdom
Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which…
Quote byHenry Thomas Buckle · 1821–1862
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge". Lecture given at the Royal Institution 19 March 1858. In: The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872).
English (original)
Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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