Knowledge Quotes

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

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"We justify claims through rational argument and empirical evidence."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Intentionality is the fundamental feature of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every mental act is directed toward an object."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Meaning emerges through intentional acts of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reflection reveals the structure of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Objects appear through successive perspectives."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Essences are accessible through eidetic intuition."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The world is a system of apparent properties."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology clarifies the foundations of knowledge."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The object appears through a manifold of presentations."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The life-world is pre-scientific and taken-for-granted."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental subject constitutes meaning."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Consciousness is always already intentional."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Objects are given through adumbration."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reason seeks universal essences."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental ego is the necessary unity of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental field is infinite."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The object is the pole of intentional acts."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every consciousness is intentional consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Being and consciousness are correlative."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Consciousness is the access to all reality."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The most thought-provoking thing is that we are still not thinking."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The most royal of the sciences must become the servant of philosophy."
Heidegger, Martin
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"We only think when we are confronted with a problem."
Dewey, John
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"The most valuable knowledge is knowledge of how to keep on learning."
Dewey, John
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"We ought to teach men how to learn, rather than to teach them all they are ever likely to need."
Dewey, John
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"The understanding of concepts is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge."
Dewey, John
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"The ability to think about things is what sets human beings apart."
Dewey, John
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"Knowledge which is separated from experience is knowledge which is dead."
Dewey, John