Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Understanding is achieved through the fusion of horizons"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."John Locke
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."John Locke
"Knowledge increases as it is shared."John Locke
"The mind is like a mirror, it gathers light and reflects it."John Locke
"Knowledge is power."Thomas Hobbes
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."Thomas Hobbes
"The source of every crime is some defect of the understanding."Thomas Hobbes
"The end of knowledge is power."Thomas Hobbes
"All sciences have a mutual connection and dependence upon each other."Thomas Hobbes
"Knowledge and conversation are his natural appetite"David Hume
"In all matters it is wholesome to enquire what is the root cause of each thing"David Hume
"There is no method of reasoning more common than that which professional men employ"David Hume
"All knowledge resolves itself into probability"David Hume
"All sciences depend upon philosophy and all are subordinate to it"David Hume
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."Immanuel Kant
"There is nothing higher than reason."Immanuel Kant
"Ignorance is not innocence, but sin."Immanuel Kant
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, but does not therefore come from the senses."Immanuel Kant
"Our intellect shapes our experience of reality."Immanuel Kant
"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of human endeavors."Immanuel Kant
"Reason gives us the structure through which we understand reality."Immanuel Kant
"Ideal theory provides a standard against which we can understand and improve non-ideal circumstances."John Rawls
"The security of the sovereign depends much upon the knowledge which the people possess."Adam Smith
"The greatest deception is thinking one understands what one does not."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Knowledge gains its worth only when integrated into understanding."Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The more the mind understands all things as necessary, the greater is its power of acting."Baruch Spinoza
"The mind can understand neither how nor why the body is affected."Baruch Spinoza
"Those who understand the mind rightly understand that the mind is eternal."Baruch Spinoza
"The greater the mind's understanding, the greater is its power of acting."Baruch Spinoza