Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The mind grows by what it feeds upon."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Knowledge without action is mere speculation."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning."
Dewey, John
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"Knowledge is not simply a collection of facts; it is a mode of engaging with the world."
Dewey, John
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"Intellectual growth should commence the moment life begins and cease only when life ends."
Dewey, John
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"To the being qualified by study and thought, a new world opens daily."
Dewey, John
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"The test of all knowledge is its serviceability in the lives of men and women."
Dewey, John
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"The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Knowledge is not something to be possessed but something to be lived."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"To understand a language is to master a technique."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Understanding a sentence means understanding a language."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Understanding is the grasping of meaning; it is the apprehension of human expression in all its forms."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The unity of knowledge comes not from reducing all disciplines to one, but from understanding their connections."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Knowledge of the past is not mere antiquarianism but the foundation of self-knowledge."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Knowledge grows not through accumulation alone but through the integration of understanding at deeper levels."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Ignorance is the womb of monsters."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"We cannot think at all without signs and symbols."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"One cannot take a step in inquiry without symbols."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Every statement is a prophecy."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The elements of every concept enter into all judgments."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Inquiry is the struggle to achieve a stable state of belief."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Signs are the vehicles by which the mind grasps the world."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
Heidegger, Martin
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"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed in ontology."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Thinking begins when we stop taking things for granted."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The essence precedes and determines the existence of artifacts."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The crisis of our time is a crisis of forgetting being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Consciousness is always consciousness of something; this is the fundamental principle of phenomenology."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The essence of perception lies not in what we see, but in how consciousness constitutes what we see."
Husserl, Edmund
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"By examining our own consciousness rigorously, we discover universal truths about all consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund