Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Logical frameworks are useful, but usefulness has limits."
Beall, Jc
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"Formal precision can illuminate or obscure, depending on what we're examining."
Beall, Jc
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"The study of logic teaches us humility about our thinking."
Beall, Jc
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"The semantics we adopt shape the truths we can express."
Beall, Jc
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"Logic teaches us to be careful; it doesn't teach us when to stop."
Beall, Jc
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"To think rigorously is not necessarily to think in one particular way."
Beall, Jc
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"The laws of logic are hypotheses about how language and thought relate."
Beall, Jc
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"Formal semantics can only do so much; the rest is philosophy."
Beall, Jc
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"The study of non-classical logic humbles our understanding of reasoning."
Beall, Jc
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"The principle of explosion is powerful precisely because it's rarely acceptable."
Beall, Jc
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"To work carefully in logic is to discover the limits of logic."
Beall, Jc
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"The study of logic teaches us that thinking is more complex than we assumed."
Beall, Jc
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"Knowledge without application is merely decoration."
Mares, Edwin
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"The sophist sells certainty; the philosopher sells doubt."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Rhetoric teaches us how to persuade; logic teaches us how to verify."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"To understand is to follow the chain of reasoning."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"To master language is to master thought."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Clarity comes from questioning what seems clear."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Knowledge is power."
Correia, Fabrice
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"To understand a thing, you must understand its contradictions."
Priest, Graham
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"A contradiction resolved is knowledge gained."
Priest, Graham
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"What appears absurd to reason may be essential to understanding."
Priest, Graham
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"The deepest insights often come disguised as confusion."
Priest, Graham
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"The mind expands by embracing what it cannot comprehend."
Priest, Graham
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"In the space between what we know and what we assume lies the frontier of discovery."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The mind thrives not on answers but on worthy questions."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The structure of reality is more complex than our initial intuitions suggest."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects have boundaries, and these boundaries matter for understanding reality."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Being is richer and more varied than our everyday concepts suggest."
Schaffer, Jonathan