Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Understanding begins where certainty ends."
Cyril Burt
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"Understanding grows from sustained engagement with complexity, not retreat into simplicity."
Cyril Burt
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"Understanding facial expressions is like learning a universal language that transcends words."
Paul Ekman
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"Recognizing surprise on another's face tells you what they did not expect to happen."
Paul Ekman
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"A face that shows no emotion is itself communicating a message."
Paul Ekman
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"Every culture has rules about when, where, and how to display emotions."
Paul Ekman
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"Reading faces is not mind reading; it is reading emotional states."
Paul Ekman
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"The eyebrows are among the most eloquent communicators of human emotion."
Paul Ekman
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"The absence of expected emotion is sometimes as informative as its presence."
Paul Ekman
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"Cultures vary in which emotions are acceptable to display in public spaces."
Paul Ekman
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"The duration of a smile can indicate whether it is genuine or strategic."
Paul Ekman
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"The face is the first place we look to understand another person's state of mind."
Paul Ekman
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"General intelligence is the foundation upon which all specific abilities are built."
Charles Spearman
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"Intelligence is not a single talent but a central force affecting all mental operations."
Charles Spearman
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"The measurement of intelligence is not an end, but a beginning of understanding."
Charles Spearman
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"The patterns we observe in ability correlations reveal the architecture of mind."
Charles Spearman
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"To measure intelligence is to hold up a mirror to human potential itself."
Charles Spearman
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"The measurement of mind is the measurement of human possibility."
Charles Spearman
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"The correlation between abilities shows that mind is fundamentally unified."
Charles Spearman
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"Every mental faculty depends upon the general factor underlying all cognition."
Charles Spearman
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"To measure intelligence is not to limit it but to understand and develop it."
Charles Spearman
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"Intelligence is not fixed but develops through interaction with the world."
William Stern
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"Knowledge without understanding is merely information."
William Stern
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"Knowledge without virtue is dangerous."
William Stern
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"The true art of memory is attention."
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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"The mind is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised."
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone."
Hermann Ebbinghaus
"We must measure intelligence not by a single number, but by understanding its many facets."
Lewis Terman
"A person of true intelligence knows the limits of their own knowledge."
Lewis Terman