Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The most valuable education teaches how to learn."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The relationship between language and reality is more complex than naive realism assumes."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Knowledge is power, but only if applied wisely."
Burge, Tyler
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"Knowledge is the foundation of understanding."
Burge, Tyler
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"Meaning is not discovered in the world; it is constructed through the architecture of our concepts."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Understanding requires breaking concepts into their atomic constituents."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Understanding is a process of making the implicit explicit through reason."
Katz, Jerrold
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"The mind seeks patterns; language records the patterns it has found."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Concepts are keys; they unlock rooms in the mansion of understanding."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Every discipline is ultimately a special language for describing some corner of reality."
Katz, Jerrold
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"To think is to categorize; to understand categories is to understand thought."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language of thought is the key to understanding human cognition."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We must understand how minds connect to the world."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Representation requires the right kind of causal history."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Knowledge requires more than mere correlation."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"We must integrate science with philosophy."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Knowledge requires proper grounding."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Understanding requires careful definition."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"The world is knowable through proper methods."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Logic is the grammar of thought, not merely the study of arguments."
Montague, Richard
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"The precision of language is the precision of thought."
Montague, Richard
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"The study of meaning is ultimately the study of human possibility."
Montague, Richard
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"The examination of meaning is the examination of ourselves."
Montague, Richard
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"Language is the house in which we dwell, but we must learn its architecture."
Montague, Richard
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"To know something is to have traced its logical relations to all other things."
Montague, Richard
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"The word is not the thing, yet through the word we grasp the thing."
Montague, Richard
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"The pursuit of knowledge requires us to question our most cherished assumptions."
Kaplan, David
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"Every question we ask opens a door to new understanding."
Kaplan, David
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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Fine, Arthur
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"Knowledge without application is merely decoration for the mind."
Perry, John