Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge is power, but only when spoken aloud."
Wittig, Monique
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"To trace associations is to practice a form of radical empiricism."
Latour, Bruno
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"We must follow the actors and let them define the social for us."
Latour, Bruno
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"Facts gain their authority from networks of practice and collective agreement."
Latour, Bruno
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"To understand the present, we must study laboratories and testing grounds."
Latour, Bruno
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"We cannot step outside networks to gain a view from nowhere."
Latour, Bruno
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"To map an actor-network is to reveal the hidden infrastructure of the social."
Latour, Bruno
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"Facts do not speak for themselves; they are made to speak through networks."
Latour, Bruno
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"Knowledge accumulation is always accumulation of connections."
Latour, Bruno
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"To understand our world, we must study the invisible networks that sustain it."
Latour, Bruno
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"To follow the actors is to become a tracer of associations and a mapper of networks."
Latour, Bruno
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"We need to recover the capacity for deep attention in an age of distraction."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We must recover the wisdom that some things cannot and should not be accelerated."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The unconscious wants to know about itself."
Rich, Adrienne
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"Knowledge without wisdom leads to the perpetuation of harm."
hooks, bell
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"The capacity to change our minds is a sign of wisdom, not weakness."
hooks, bell
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"Knowledge without action is incomplete; true understanding demands engagement with the world."
Davis, Angela
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"Knowledge without compassion becomes a tool of oppression."
hooks, bell
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"Wisdom includes knowing the limits of what we can know."
Young, Iris Marion
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"The personal experiences of ordinary people are data for social theory."
Young, Iris Marion
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"To understand a culture, we must listen to its stories and its silences."
Benhabib, Seyla
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"Knowledge is always partial and perspectival, never absolute."
Benhabib, Seyla
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"Language shapes what we can think and express; we must expand our vocabulary for justice."
Benhabib, Seyla
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"Education is the foundation for developing human potential and capability."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"Learning is a lifelong process essential to human flourishing."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"We need to question what we think we already know about the categories we use to describe ourselves."
Butler, Judith
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"We can understand the human condition by understanding the conditions under which we come to know anything."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The fragments we share become the whole of our understanding."
Rich, Adrienne
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"The most important thing to understand about Behavioral Economics is that people are not rational."
Thaler, Richard
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"Anchoring effects show that initial information disproportionately influences decisions."
Thaler, Richard