Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The physician who cannot explain is not a physician."
Galen
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."
Galen
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"To know the causes is to understand the cure."
Galen
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"To understand health is to understand life."
Galen
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"The greatest gift is the gift of knowledge."
Galen
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"Knowledge is the foundation of all medicine."
Galen
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"Knowledge without application is merely the vanity of the learned."
Pericles
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"The desire to know is natural to good men."
Xenophon
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the disease of the ignorant."
Xenophon
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"Know thyself."
Hippocrates
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"Whoever loves practice without theory is like the sailor who steers without sun or stars."
Hippocrates
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"Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests."
Hippocrates
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"Good health requires knowledge and effort."
Hippocrates
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"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it."
Hippocrates
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"All things require skill but an appetite."
Hippocrates
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"Knowledge is the map by which we navigate the uncertain waters of existence."
Eratosthenes
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"Calculation and observation are the twin pillars of understanding."
Eratosthenes
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"To understand the whole, we must first understand each part with precision."
Eratosthenes
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"Those who understand measurement understand the mechanics of creation."
Eratosthenes
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"Ignorance is strength."
Thucydides
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe."
Thucydides
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"Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement."
Thucydides
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"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."
Thucydides
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"In measuring the stars, we measure ourselves and our place in the cosmos."
Hipparchus
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"Through careful measurement, the invisible becomes visible."
Hipparchus
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"The stars have guided travelers for millennia; now let us understand why."
Hipparchus
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"Mathematics is the grammar of nature; observation is its vocabulary."
Hipparchus
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"In precise measurement lies the secret of controlling prediction."
Hipparchus
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"Each observation adds a brick to the great temple of understanding."
Hipparchus
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"What the eye misses, the instrument reveals; what the instrument reveals, the mind must interpret."
Hipparchus