Knowledge Quotes

"A species should not be eliminated without knowing what role it plays in the symphony of life."

"Leopold believed that an acre of awareness is worth more than acres of protection without understanding."

"Language is the treasury of a people's spirit and memory."

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely empty accumulation."

"Culture is the widening of thought's field of action."

"Knowledge is power."

"You cannot protect what you do not love, and you cannot love what you do not know."

"Language itself is a field of battle where meanings are contested."

"Culture is the repository of a people's collective wisdom."

"Knowledge is power, but it is also responsibility"

"The gross national product does not allow for the health of children or the quality of education."

"Every species extinction is a library burning, taking knowledge with it forever."

"The most important discovery is not what we find but what we learn to value."

"The wisdom of ancestors speaks through the voices of the present."

"Language is not just communication; it is the essence of thought itself."

"We cannot represent the subaltern; we can only learn to listen."

"The archive is a space of knowledge and a space of forgetting."

"Knowledge is always situated and interested."

"The production of knowledge is always political."

"The other teaches us the limits of our knowledge."

"We are all involved in the production of knowledge and power."

"A people without knowledge of their past is like a tree without roots."

"The oppressor fears the educated mind more than any army."

"To know thyself is the beginning of all liberation."

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."

"The doctor does not understand the native mentality. So he remains a stranger in the land of the sick."

"The problem of the native doctor and the psychology of the colonized is immense."

"The question is not whether the colonized can understand the dialectical method, but whether they will use it."

"To know oneself is to know one's ancestors and one's descendants."

"To be an intellectual in the Islamic world is to be engaged in a constant negotiation with tradition and modernity."