Knowledge Quotes

"Abstract thought is the privilege of those moments in which we are comparatively free from the binding necessities of the immediate situation."

"Intellectual culture requires above all things the widest possible vision."

"Genuine thinking is always thinking about something that concerns us."

"Words are not mere labels for things; they unveil them."

"Every interpretation is an interpretation of something."

"Science calculates; wisdom contemplates."

"Meaning is not created but discovered in our engagement with the world."

"Consciousness is being toward the thing, by grasping it."

"Meaning is not found; it is created through engagement."

"The horizon recedes as we approach it; this is the nature of understanding."

"Knowledge without compassion is empty."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."

"Every act of consciousness is directed toward an object; this intentionality is the fundamental nature of the mind."

"True knowledge begins when we abandon the natural attitude and awaken to the structures of our own experiencing."

"Every act of perception is also an act of judgment, selecting from the infinite field of possible meanings."

"In studying consciousness, we are studying the very source and wellspring of all meaning."

"Experience is a product of both action and interpretation."

"To know nothing is to understand all: is an old truism."

"The more you read about the world, the more you realize how much there is to know."

"Knowledge is a human activity, and the most human of all."

"To know something is to have power over it."

"Knowledge is only valuable if applied."

"The web of belief is not usually affected by new evidence; only peripheral beliefs adjust."

"Language serves as a framework through which we interpret reality itself."

"The stimulus is all that the senses deliver; everything else is interpretation."

"The mind grasps the world through concepts it constructs, not passively receives."

"The mind cannot escape language; to think is already to speak."

"Grammar reveals something about how we organize experience, not necessarily reality's structure."

"Logic is the science of inference; validity depends on form, not content."

"Meaning emerges from the role a word plays in a system of sentences."