Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Systems of control rely on manufactured ignorance."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The study of language reveals the nature of human minds."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Language reveals hidden assumptions about reality."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Knowledge is power only when shared and organized."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We are dying from a lack of mystery, not a lack of information."
Rosen, Gideon
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
Perry, John
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"The seed of great discovery is curiosity."
Perry, John
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"Language is the architecture upon which all human understanding is built."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Grammar is not discovered; it is constructed by the human mind."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The structure of language mirrors the structure of thought itself."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The relation between word and world is mediated by concepts in consciousness."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Human cognition operates according to rules we are largely unconscious of."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Concepts are tools the mind uses to impose structure on experience."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Linguistic competence far exceeds what we can explain through behavioral observation."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Understanding presupposes a rich internal mental architecture."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language reveals that humans are fundamentally meaning-seeking creatures."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Linguistic meaning is conventional, but the capacity for convention-making is universal."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language games show how meaning emerges from rule-governed social practices."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Thought and language are distinct, even as they are intimately related."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Concepts allow the mind to impose unity on the multiplicity of experience."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language is the manifestation of an inner logical form that thought possesses."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The capacity for language is inseparable from the capacity for abstract thought."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Thought extends beyond what can be immediately perceived or linguistically expressed."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language reveals that humans are creatures who live partly in a world of their own making."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Meaning is not something that exists independently; it is created through the relationship between signs and their users."
Montague, Richard
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"The boundaries of my language mean the boundaries of my world."
Montague, Richard
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"We build our understanding of reality through the construction of language."
Montague, Richard
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"Logical form reveals what ordinary language often conceals."
Montague, Richard
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"Words do not simply name things; they organize our perception of things."
Montague, Richard