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