Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Understanding the cosmos is the highest honor of the human mind."
Anaximenes
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"To understand the least thing is to glimpse the infinite."
Anaximenes
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"The universe reveals itself not to the passive but to the questioning mind."
Anaximenes
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"The gods did not reveal to mortals all things from the beginning, but mortals by seeking find out better in time."
Xenophanes
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"By seeking, mortals discover the better path."
Xenophanes
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"The pursuit of wisdom requires questioning all received beliefs."
Xenophanes
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"The path to knowledge is paved with rejected certainties."
Xenophanes
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"What we call miracles are merely events we do not yet understand."
Xenophanes
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"To question the gods is to begin to understand them rightly."
Xenophanes
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"The path of inquiry is longer and more difficult than the path of faith."
Xenophanes
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"The mind that never questions never learns."
Xenophanes
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"No one is wise enough by himself."
Aristophanes
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"Knowledge without application is merely information."
Aristophanes
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"If wisdom were gold, most would remain poor, for few seek what cannot be spent."
Sappho
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"The seeds of all things are mixed together in the beginning."
Anaxagoras
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"Through reason and observation, we approach truth."
Anaxagoras
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"To know a thing is to understand the mixture of elements within it."
Anaxagoras
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"The mind perceives what the body cannot measure."
Anaxagoras
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"Understanding nature requires we abandon false certainties."
Anaxagoras
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"To understand the whole, we must study the parts with precision."
Anaxagoras
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"To know nature is to know ourselves, for we are nature."
Anaxagoras
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"In every effect lies a cause waiting to be discovered."
Anaxagoras
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"All knowledge is ultimately the knowledge of relationships."
Anaxagoras
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"The investigator must be prepared to have all assumptions challenged."
Anaxagoras
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"We must seek understanding not in the visible world alone, but in the invisible principles that govern it."
Anaximander
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"The Earth floats freely in space, held in place not by a foundation, but by the balance of forces."
Anaximander
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"The brain, not the heart, is the seat of human intellect and reason."
Anaximander
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"Seek the principle beneath the phenomenon, and you will find truth."
Anaximander
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"Those who understand water understand the secret of all life."
Anaximander
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"Those who understand atoms understand the foundation of all existence."
Leucippus