Knowledge Quotes

"Knowledge is the wound that separates us from innocence."

"All knowledge is the knowledge of mortality."

"The primary task of man is to perceive and understand reality as a whole."

"Pure work of the intelligence is rare and comes by grace."

"Language is a map of the territory, but it is not the territory itself."

"Method without intuition is sterile; intuition without method is chaos."

"The obligation to think is the foundation of all other obligations."

"Knowledge without love is merely intellectual accumulation."

"Knowledge demands responsibility for the known."

"Theory must be our guide."

"Knowledge is always situated and partial."

"Reading requires a theory of reading."

"Understanding requires recognizing overdetermination."

"Knowledge production is always political."

"Knowledge is the endless deferral of final understanding."

"Experience teaches through its own incomprehensibility."

"The deepest question is not what we know but how we know it."

"To seek truth in isolation is to lose truth."

"Knowledge is the weapon the weak have forged against the strong."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Every human being is a philosopher."

"Every person is an intellectual potentially."

"Knowledge is power only when it is shared."

"True knowledge comes from understanding the totality of social relations."

"To know oneself is to know one's place in history."

"Understanding requires immersion in the particularity of concrete situations."

"Understanding requires both intellectual rigor and imaginative sympathy."

"Language binds me before freeing me; this is the paradox of human existence."

"Language is not mine; I am claimed by it through the other."

"Learning is being transformed by what is other to oneself."