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