Knowledge Quotes

"The curious economist searches not for law but for pattern."

"Mankind must discover the principles of action as well as of speculation."

"Knowledge of the future would not lead to certainty in belief."

"Knowledge itself is power."

"Knowledge is the power to change the world."

"The growth of knowledge is the only field in which we can say that humanity is making real progress."

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."

"We must distinguish between the map and the territory it represents."

"Every culture is logical from within itself."

"All knowledge is partial; all understanding is incomplete."

"The mind is not a blank slate but a complex instrument."

"Knowledge increases the weight of what we do not know."

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."

"Language is the most fundamental tool of human thought."

"Language is both transparent and opaque in its capacity to deceive."

"Understanding history is essential to challenging the present."

"Knowledge is power, but only when it is shared with others."

"In the darkness of ignorance, laws become instruments of oppression."

"Enlightenment comes not from avoiding questions, but from asking them boldly."

"The light of knowledge drives away the darkness of superstition."

"The mind grows through challenge and withers through constraint."

"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance."

"The theory of economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy."

"Induction from experience has to be supplemented by the judgment of reasonable men."

"It is a curious thing that the more we know, the more we understand how little we know."

"The notion that a man can be an expert on a subject outside his field of specialization is absurd."

"The art of economics lies in the relating of abstract principles to concrete institutions."

"Economic science teaches us humility about what we can predict and control."

"The study of economics reveals how little we truly understand about human behavior."

"Economic calculation is only possible under capitalism because only capitalism produces market prices."