Knowledge Quotes

From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.

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"We gather knowledge not to show off our learning, but to live better lives."
Epicurus
C
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge."
Confucius
C
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Confucius
C
"To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge."
Confucius
H
"The mind is the measure of all things that exist."
Heraclitus
H
"To understand one thing, understand all things."
Heraclitus
H
"The mind extends as far as understanding reaches."
Heraclitus
P
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
Plato
P
"The highest knowledge is to understand the limitations of your knowledge."
Plato
P
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Plato
P
"Knowledge is power."
Plato
P
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
Plato
Z
"Space divides infinitely inward; thus, the smallest distance is never reached."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"The visible world contradicts itself; therefore, trust reason alone."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"To comprehend infinity is to understand the limits of comprehension itself."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"If we grant the many, we grant the infinite, and the infinite is unknowable."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"To number the infinite is to number the uncountable—a contradiction in terms."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"Parts cannot constitute a whole if they are infinite in number."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"To divide is to divide infinitely; to act infinitely is to act not at all."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"The infinite cannot be completed, yet we act as if it can—herein lies our error."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"The paradoxes of motion prove the illusory nature of sensory perception."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"The infinite cannot be added to the finite; therefore, the finite cannot exist in an infinite universe."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"The problem of motion dissolves only when we accept the unchanging nature of being."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"To understand the infinite is to understand the limit of understanding itself."
Zeno of Elea
S
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
S
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates
S
"The only evil is ignorance."
Socrates
S
"Once we perceive something, we assume we understand it."
Socrates
S
"The only true good is knowledge, and the only true evil is ignorance."
Socrates
S
"No one desires to possess ignorance."
Socrates