Knowledge Quotes

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

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"All knowledge begins with sensory perception."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Knowledge of ourselves begins with knowledge of our bodies."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"All knowledge worth having is grounded in physical reality."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"To understand another's perspective is to expand the boundaries of one's own consciousness."
Johann Tetens
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of ever-deeper questions."
Johann Tetens
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"We cannot know anything of which we have not made ourselves the cause."
Giovanni Vico
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"True knowledge is knowledge of causes."
Giovanni Vico
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"Eloquence and wisdom are not always companions."
Giovanni Vico
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"The marketplace of ideas requires honest merchants and discerning buyers."
Giovanni Vico
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of the infinite in the finite."
Giovanni Vico
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Johann Goethe
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"The human heart is the starting point of all knowledge."
Johann Herder
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"Knowledge is power only when applied with wisdom."
Johann Herder
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"Knowledge is power, and the power to think is the greatest power of all."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The intellect should be nourished like a garden."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Knowledge without virtue is a dangerous thing."
Catharine Macaulay
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"In all thy getting, get understanding."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The greatest impediment to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
George Berkeley
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"Few men think; yet all will have opinions."
George Berkeley
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"It is one thing to perceive the beauty of a sunset; it is quite another to understand its cause."
George Berkeley
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"Words are the tokens of ideas, and all knowledge is ultimately traceable to perception."
George Berkeley
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"All knowledge flows from the perception of ideas."
George Berkeley
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Hugo Grotius
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"The pursuit of knowledge is endless."
Hugo Grotius
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Hugo Grotius
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"The greatest wisdom is in knowing oneself."
Christian Wolff
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"What appears to be chaos is merely complexity we have not yet understood."
Christian Wolff
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"The knowledge of causes brings understanding of effects."
Christian Wolff