Knowledge Quotes

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

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"In the pursuit of knowledge, we discover our truest selves."
Law, John
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all human endeavors."
Law, John
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"Knowledge without virtue is merely sophisticated ignorance."
Law, John
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"Knowledge production is always a political act"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Language both enables and constrains what we can think"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Theory is a practice, not merely a representation of reality"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we are always already part of the world we're trying to understand."
Barad, Karen
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"The universe is intelligible, but intelligibility is not a property of the world alone."
Barad, Karen
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"We cannot know the world without being part of its knowing."
Barad, Karen
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"Medical facts are not simply given by nature; they are achieved through work."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To normalize something is not to describe nature, but to enact a particular form of life."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The question is not whether something is real, but how it comes to be real."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We live in a world of partial connections, not total explanations."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To know the world is to participate in its making, not to stand apart from it."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To know is to be implicated, to be part of what one knows."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Knowledge is power only when it is used with compassion."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Knowledge without wisdom is like power without compassion."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Situated knowledges are about responsibility and accountability, not objectivity from nowhere."
Haraway, Donna
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"Situated knowledge is an alternative to the view from nowhere that claims objectivity."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must learn to think with what I call 'propositions,' not propositions that assert truth."
Haraway, Donna
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"Knowledge is collective; it is built through networks of humans and non-humans."
Callon, Michel
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"Knowledge is never complete; it is always open to revision."
Callon, Michel
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"Knowledge grows in the spaces between different perspectives."
Callon, Michel
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"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Thought itself is a form of movement and becoming."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Knowledge is always situated and perspectival rather than objective."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Knowledge without application is merely entertainment."
Law, John
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Law, John
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"We must learn to think with our bodies, not just with our minds."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Embodied knowledge is valid and valuable; we must honor multiple ways of knowing."
Braidotti, Rosi