Knowledge Quotes

"The study of logic is not pedantry; it is the study of how to think rightly about anything."

"True knowledge always has practical implications for how we ought to live."

"We are not merely observers of reality; we are participants in its construction."

"Knowledge without action is merely beautiful decoration for the mind."

"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous accumulation."

"Knowledge accumulates; wisdom integrates."

"Culture is information passed through channels other than DNA."

"Understanding ourselves requires multiple levels of description."

"Mystery often surrounds ignorance rather than genuine inscrutability."

"Progress in understanding requires both skepticism and openness."

"Knowledge is not a tool which can be shelved or unshelved at will."

"To know a word is to know how to use it."

"Language games are what we do with words."

"Think of the tools in a toolbox."

"In order to understand a sentence we need to know what fact would make it true."

"Thinking is the activity that structures reality."

"There is not an object called meaning."

"Words have no fixed essence."

"A word does not stand for a thing in isolation."

"To know is to understand how it all fits together."

"Names are like labels on things."

"Meaning grows through use."

"A sentence is a name of a fact."

"Understanding a word means grasping its possibilities."

"Modularity of mind explains why we are so good at some cognitive tasks and so bad at others."

"Fodor's law: the more global a cognitive process is, the less we understand it."

"Thought experiments reveal the limitations of our intuitions about the mind."

"Concepts have a kind of structure that resists simple reductionist accounts."

"Productivity of thought requires compositional semantics."

"Atomism about concepts is inadequate; concepts have internal structure."