Knowledge Quotes

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

"Intelligence is revocable only because it is subject to the limitation of human nature and knowledge."

"Knowledge is the highest treasure and the greatest pleasure."

"Military science is a noble pursuit when directed toward peace."

"Knowledge becomes power only when applied to change the material conditions of life."

"One cannot change society without first understanding how it is organized."

"Facts are to the mind like food to the body."

"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passion."

"The intellectual's error consists in believing one can know without understanding."

"Every person is an intellectual, though not all are recognized as such."

"As to myself, I am indifferent to almost every thing except truth and utility."

"Language is the band of society and the mirror of thought."

"The demand for certainty is one of the great regulators of the imaginations."

"Reason is the sovereign of reason; experience the sovereign of reason itself."

"To know human nature is to know the springs of action."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."

"The foundation of all knowledge is experience."

"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."

"Labor is the only source of all wealth and knowledge."

"To accomplish the dissolution of the present state of things, we must understand its nature."

"We should not think of the subject as a substance, but rather as something that is continually formed and reformed through relations of power."

"The archive is not simply the set of texts preserved; it is the system that determines what can be said and thought."

"Every epoch has its own regime of truth, determining what counts as knowledge and what remains invisible."

"The archive does not preserve what was; it selects, interprets, and constitutes what counts as historical."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"A man who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat its mistakes."

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on its diffusion."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

"Ignorance never settles a question."

"Beware of the man of one book."