Karl Popper Quotes

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

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.

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.

History has no meaning.