Knowledge Quotes

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

"Thinking is the method of intelligent learning."

"Intelligence is not something possessed once and for all. It is in constant process of forming."

"Not knowing how to find your way around a library is like not knowing how to swim."

"Understanding means seeing how the thing functions."

"Language is the medium of thought."

"There is no such thing as mental discipline independent of content."

"Consciousness is a being which relates itself to another being, from which it is distinguished"

"The dialectic is the soul of all scientific knowledge"

"Thought is the being of things"

"The universal comes to consciousness through the particular"

"Abstract thinking obscures rather than reveals reality"

"The concept is the truth of the object"

"The path of knowledge is the path of negation"

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something"

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing how to use it."

"Come, learn from nature's endless book of knowledge."

"Knowledge without application is merely idle curiosity."

"Reading the word is always preceded by reading the world."

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry."

"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation."

"The senses are the organs by which the individual places himself in direct relation with the external world."

"The child yearns to understand the world around him, not through our explanations, but through his own activity."

"The human being becomes what he experiences, and experience is the basis for all learning."

"The sensorial experiences of the child are the materials for all thinking and reasoning."

"The task of hermeneutics is to understand the author better than the author understood themselves"

"The interpreter must bring their own subjectivity to understanding another's work"

"The unity of all knowledge lies in understanding human experience"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"The magnificent delight we experience when we first become aware that a new idea is at hand is the longing of the soul."