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