Knowledge Quotes

"The price system is a mechanism for coordinating human action in a way no central authority could ever achieve."

"To understand economics is to understand the only science that explains human action in the pursuit of material wellbeing."

"A man who does not understand economics will be manipulated by those who do."

"Economic science teaches us that man must choose between alternatives and bear the cost of his choices."

"To understand why a policy fails, one must understand the law of unintended consequences."

"A man who understands the market understands the secret of all human action."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all endeavors."

"Knowledge is power when paired with wisdom."

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

"The curious mind is the most powerful tool for understanding reality."

"The division of knowledge and labor is more complex than any individual could comprehend."

"Those who understand economics understand why most political proposals fail."

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal; when involuntary, it is misfortune."

"To know what is good, one must know what brings happiness."

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

"Knowledge is power."

"To know oneself, one must study the body."

"All our knowledge comes from sensation."

"Real knowledge serves the improvement of life."

"To understand others, study the body, not the soul."

"A man without education is like a tree without fruit."

"Knowledge without application is mere curiosity; wisdom requires both."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest adventure a human can undertake."

"The moment we cease to learn is the moment we begin to decline."

"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what everybody will allow"

"We do not know the real intrinsic nature of any one thing"

"A little attention to the nature of sensible things will show us that, however we may abstract or divide them, they remain inseparably connected"

"Human knowledge consists only of ideas"

"Light and colours serve us as signs by which we learn and become acquainted with things useful and hurtful to our bodies"

"Whatsoever we perceive is some affection or alteration of our mind"