Quote#Wisdom
Theorem I. Any sight of which seeing has not informed me of, is…
Quote byAlexander Bryan Johnson · 1786–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856), Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge..
English (original)
Theorem I. Any sight of which seeing has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Sensible knowledge discriminated from intellectual knowledge. 2. The intellectual injury from the privation of any sense.
— Alexander Bryan Johnson
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