Knowledge Quotes

From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.

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"The conditioning of a dog is a mirror held up to human learning."
Ivan Pavlov
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"The laboratory teaches what centuries of philosophy cannot reveal."
Ivan Pavlov
"The very first principle of true teaching is to awaken a desire to learn."
Florence Nightingale
"The mind is not a thing to be trained but a thing to be cultivated."
B.F. Skinner
"The mind learns through experience, not through words alone."
B.F. Skinner
"Knowledge without application remains potential rather than power."
B.F. Skinner
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"The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent."
Carl Jung
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"The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs which characterize the fantasy of all mankind."
Carl Jung
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"The archetype is the original pattern from which all expressions of a particular type emerge."
Carl Jung
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"To understand the human being, we must first understand the archetypes that move through the human imagination."
Carl Jung
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"Every act of knowing brings forth a world."
Humberto Maturana
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"To live is to know; to know is to live."
Humberto Maturana
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"All understanding is generated through action and reflection."
Humberto Maturana
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"Knowledge is a domain of descriptions generated through experience."
Humberto Maturana
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"Learning is the generation of new coherences in living systems."
Humberto Maturana
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"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
Sigmund Freud
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
Sigmund Freud
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"The unconscious is the true psychical reality."
Sigmund Freud
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"The individual does call the unconscious irrational, but the study of unconscious psychology reveals that the unconscious is not less rational than the conscious mind."
Sigmund Freud
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"The unconscious is invisible, inaudible, and unseeable."
Sigmund Freud
"I have always believed that science belongs to all people, not just to a privileged few."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"The mind is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all endeavors."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Science is the light that dispels the darkness of ignorance."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"Knowledge pursued for its own sake will eventually prove its worth to humanity."
Edward Jenner
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"The brain is a very special organ."
James Watson
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"If you want to understand life, you must understand DNA."
James Watson
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"The structure of DNA explains everything about inheritance."
James Watson
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"Every discovery opens new questions."
James Watson
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"Knowledge without application is incomplete."
James Watson