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