black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Karl Popper

He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test and that they can be regarded as finally verified retires from the game.
KARL POPPER

Call Decision Game Himself Science
If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
KARL POPPER

Quiet Science Simplicity Yourself
Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.
KARL POPPER

Avoid Demand Greatness Happiness Philosophy Prayer Suffering
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
KARL POPPER

Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
KARL POPPER

Faith One Liner Thinking
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
KARL POPPER

Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
KARL POPPER

Freedom Philosophy Reason Security
It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.
KARL POPPER

Existence Man Philosophy Spiritual
The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
KARL POPPER

Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
KARL POPPER

Believe Choice Freedom Lost Philosophy Prepare Thinking Victory Wrong
We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
KARL POPPER

Law Philosophy Theory
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the mesh ever finer and finer.
KARL POPPER

Fine Perfection Theory World
And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
KARL POPPER

Philosophy Respect Search Truth
What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.
KARL POPPER

Deep Moral Need Politics
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.
KARL POPPER

Help Man Nature Ourselves
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
KARL POPPER

Deep Difference Equality Ourselves Philosophy

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Karl Popper Quotes