Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The mind is eternal insofar as it understands."
Spinoza
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"Knowledge of particulars is finite."
Spinoza
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"Knowledge is power over circumstances and over ourselves."
Spinoza
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"Active joy is impossible without adequate ideas."
Spinoza
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"The power of the mind is its understanding."
Spinoza
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"He who possesses a body capable of the greatest number of simultaneous relations possesses a mind capable of perceiving a greater number of things at once."
Spinoza
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"Knowledge is the presence of the thing in the mind."
Ibn Arabi
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"Gnosis is the garden of this world and the paradise of the next."
Ibn Arabi
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"Everything that exists desires to be known."
Ibn Arabi
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"The one who knows himself knows his Lord."
Ibn Arabi
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"To know is to be in union with the known."
Ibn Arabi
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"Knowledge without practice is like a tree without fruit."
Ibn Arabi
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"Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be given thee."
George Fox
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"The purpose of all knowledge is to arrive at wisdom."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Through our senses we receive all knowledge of external things."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Ignorance is not merely the absence of knowledge but resistance to it."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"True knowledge comes from experience combined with reflection."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"To know thyself is to know the mystery of creation itself."
Jacob Böhme
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"The eye cannot see itself; the mind cannot know itself alone."
Jacob Böhme
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"Know the true definition of yourself. That is all anyone needs to do in this world."
Hafiz
"Knowledge without love is like a lamp without oil to burn."
Charles Wesley
"Knowledge poorly applied becomes a burden rather than a blessing."
Charles Wesley
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"Knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit."
Ibn Arabi
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"Knowledge without love is like a lamp without light."
Ibn Arabi
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"The deepest knowledge comes from lived experience."
Ibn Arabi
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"He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived."
Spinoza
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"The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue is to know God."
Spinoza
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"The human mind, so far as it is involved in bodily affections, cannot possess a true knowledge of itself."
Spinoza
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"All knowledge that does not lead to greater self-understanding is incomplete."
Spinoza
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"We shall never fully know ourselves until we know God."
Julian of Norwich