Knowledge Quotes

"The greatest impediment to knowledge is the illusion that you already possess it."

"The capacity to judge is a specifically human ability; animals cannot judge."

"Memory is the birthplace of understanding."

"The true is the whole; understanding requires seeing how parts relate to the totality."

"Logic is the science of pure forms of thought and being."

"Infinite regress is avoided only through recognizing the concrete universal."

"The dialectical method reveals contradictions inherent in all determinate concepts."

"The abstract understanding divides what concrete reason must reunite."

"The task of consciousness is to overcome its finitude through thought."

"Knowledge without humility is merely arrogance."

"I am never content to take your word for it. I do not believe it on authority."

"Space and time are not conditions of things in themselves, but conditions of our intuition of things."

"The desire for knowledge is the first step toward wisdom."

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds to the understanding."

"The understanding has not to do with the content of presentations but with the form."

"The noumenal world is beyond the reach of human knowledge."

"The mind organizes sensory experience through space and time."

"The phenomenal world is all we can ever directly know."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest human calling."

"The mind is not a passive receptacle but an active force."

"Men are conscious of their appetite and ignorant of the causes that determine it."

"Understanding is the union of the mind and body."

"A thinking human being is the product of chance; a being aware of necessity is the product of reason."

"To understand something is to participate in its nature."

"The more things the body is capable of doing at once, the more capable the mind is of understanding several things at once."

"The mind knows itself in proportion as it knows external things."

"We should seek reflective equilibrium between our principles and considered judgments."

"To be aware of limitation is to transcend it"

"The rational is found in the development of things"

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom"