
“The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.”
Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156, 184 (1953)
Judicial opinions
Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 1
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
“The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.”
Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156, 184 (1953)
Judicial opinions
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice Benjamin Strauss, p. 288
1960s
“The equality of the human race is the pivot upon which our government rests and resolves.”
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319090912/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA333#v=onepage&q&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 333
1860s, Speech (June 1862)
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: Resignation as to knowledge of the world is for me not an irretrievable plunge into a scepticism which leaves us to drift about in life like a derelict vessel. I see in it that effort of honesty which we must venture to make in order to arrive at the serviceable world-view which hovers within sight. Every world-view which fails to start from resignation in regard to knowledge is artificial and a mere fabrication, for it rests upon an inadmissible interpretation of the universe.
Introductory p.2
A Budget of Paradoxes (1872)
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Variant translation: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, clear, and well-defined will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. The main source of our ignorance lies in the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
Context: The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance — the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)