Karl Popper Quotes on Knowledge
Karl Popper was a 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science, social philosopher, and one of the most influential thinkers of the analytic tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Karl Popper on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“All life is problem solving.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“We do not know: we can only guess.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.”
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Attributed to Karl Popper:
“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”