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