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
"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
"The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent."Carl Jung
"The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs which characterize the fantasy of all mankind."Carl Jung
"The archetype is the original pattern from which all expressions of a particular type emerge."Carl Jung
"To understand the human being, we must first understand the archetypes that move through the human imagination."Carl Jung
"Every act of knowing brings forth a world."Humberto Maturana
"To live is to know; to know is to live."Humberto Maturana
"All understanding is generated through action and reflection."Humberto Maturana
"Knowledge is a domain of descriptions generated through experience."Humberto Maturana
"Learning is the generation of new coherences in living systems."Humberto Maturana
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."Sigmund Freud
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."Sigmund Freud
"The unconscious is the true psychical reality."Sigmund Freud
"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
"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
"The brain is a very special organ."James Watson
"If you want to understand life, you must understand DNA."James Watson
"The structure of DNA explains everything about inheritance."James Watson
"Every discovery opens new questions."James Watson
"Knowledge without application is incomplete."James Watson