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