Knowledge Quotes

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

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"We must learn to read the world as a text full of competing interpretations."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The personal archive contains knowledge that extends beyond the individual."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The archive tells us as much about what is excluded as what is included."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We must learn to think with and through difference."
Puar, Jasbir
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"The archive reveals the contingency of what appears natural."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We must attend to what remains unsaid in official discourse."
Puar, Jasbir
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin
"It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known."
Charles Darwin
"The more we know, the more we realize how much more there is to know."
Charles Darwin
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"The body keeps the score of what the mind refuses to acknowledge."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The body knows truths the mind has not yet learned."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The most important knowledge is self-knowledge."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Situated knowledges are always partial, locatable, and critical."
Haraway, Donna
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"All knowledge is situated knowledge."
Haraway, Donna
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"Knowledge claims are always claims from somewhere."
Haraway, Donna
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"Knowledge is always perspectival and embodied."
Haraway, Donna
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"Knowledge is a matter of creating connections and building bridges."
Haraway, Donna
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"Knowledge is always partial, situated, and political."
Haraway, Donna
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"The subject is not a unified, autonomous entity but rather an effect of discursive practices."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Material and discursive practices are mutually constitutive."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The construction of meaning is never finished or final."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Meaning emerges from repetition and citation with difference."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Corporeality is the ground of all knowledge."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Meaning is never fully present; it is always deferred."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Difference is the condition of meaning."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The archive tells us what was deemed worthy of remembrance."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Longing is a form of knowledge."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Consciousness is embodied, relational, and distributed across networks."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Knowledge is power"
Law, John
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"Knowledge itself is power"
Law, John