Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The person who does not read has no advantage over the person who cannot read."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Self-consciousness is the key to all consciousness."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The universal is to be found in the particular."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Absolute knowledge is the recognition of everything as part of the eternal whole."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The greatest discoveries are those that reveal what was always present."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The pursuit of knowledge without the development of character is like building a temple on sand."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"The most dangerous ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but false knowledge held with certainty."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"The mark of a truly educated person is the ability to see connections between disparate things."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience."
John Dewey
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"Thinking is the method of an educated person."
John Dewey
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"The mind, once expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
John Dewey
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"In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth."
John Dewey
"To be able to read and write is good; but to be able to do so with understanding is better still."
John Amos Comenius
"Memory without understanding is mere decoration of the mind."
John Amos Comenius
"To know oneself is the beginning of all genuine education and growth."
John Amos Comenius
"A question asked with genuine curiosity opens more doors than answers ever could."
John Amos Comenius
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"Man is a thinking being, and thinking is his essence."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Self-consciousness is the source of all knowledge."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Consciousness is the highest form of being."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Absolute knowing is the end of history."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Understanding is the mediating link between thought and being."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Do not say a little prayer before meals, say a great one before books."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"A man is truly dead when he has stopped learning."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Everything that men esteem as valuable lies in the sphere of intellect."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Arithmetic is the most elementary form of intellectual activity."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"A man without education is like a tree without fruit."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Observation is the foundation of all knowledge."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Hermeneutics is the art of understanding the utterances of another person correctly."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The interpretive process requires both intuition and rational analysis."
Friedrich Schleiermacher