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
"Knowledge of particulars is finite."Spinoza
"Knowledge is power over circumstances and over ourselves."Spinoza
"Active joy is impossible without adequate ideas."Spinoza
"The power of the mind is its understanding."Spinoza
"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
"Knowledge is the presence of the thing in the mind."Ibn Arabi
"Gnosis is the garden of this world and the paradise of the next."Ibn Arabi
"Everything that exists desires to be known."Ibn Arabi
"The one who knows himself knows his Lord."Ibn Arabi
"To know is to be in union with the known."Ibn Arabi
"Knowledge without practice is like a tree without fruit."Ibn Arabi
"Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be given thee."George Fox
"The purpose of all knowledge is to arrive at wisdom."Emanuel Swedenborg
"Through our senses we receive all knowledge of external things."Emanuel Swedenborg
"Ignorance is not merely the absence of knowledge but resistance to it."Emanuel Swedenborg
"True knowledge comes from experience combined with reflection."Emanuel Swedenborg
"To know thyself is to know the mystery of creation itself."Jacob Böhme
"The eye cannot see itself; the mind cannot know itself alone."Jacob Böhme
"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
"Knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit."Ibn Arabi
"Knowledge without love is like a lamp without light."Ibn Arabi
"The deepest knowledge comes from lived experience."Ibn Arabi
"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
"The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue is to know God."Spinoza
"The human mind, so far as it is involved in bodily affections, cannot possess a true knowledge of itself."Spinoza
"All knowledge that does not lead to greater self-understanding is incomplete."Spinoza
"We shall never fully know ourselves until we know God."Julian of Norwich