Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"The connections of things is what we would know, that is, the reason of things."Dewey, John
"Lack of knowledge is less bad than lack of judgment."Spencer, Herbert
"There is no greater curse than ignorance acting with energy and determination."Spencer, Herbert
"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."Spencer, Herbert
"The perception of relations is the essential condition of intelligence."Spencer, Herbert
"The intellectual life demands constant exercise of the critical faculty."Spencer, Herbert
"Consciousness is the only absolute reality."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The world is only as real as we perceive it."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Knowledge without compassion is hollow wisdom."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Consciousness is the greatest achievement of nature."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Knowledge is the liberation of humanity from superstition."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The way to the palace of wisdom is not through the dark forests of superstition."Bentham, Jeremy
"Knowledge is power, and power is the means to happiness."Bentham, Jeremy
"The mind of man is such that knowledge once acquired can never be lost."Bentham, Jeremy
"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest form of human endeavor."Bentham, Jeremy
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."Marx, Karl
"Even defective knowledge is still knowledge."Marx, Karl
"Critical analysis of existing conditions is the foundation of transformation."Marx, Karl
"Knowledge without love produces only sterile intellectualism."Comte, Auguste
"Knowledge accumulates through systematic observation and organized doubt."Comte, Auguste
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."Mill, John Stuart
"Mankind benefit more by the free exchange of ideas than any man by exclusive possession of ideas."Mill, John Stuart
"Man is what he eats, and therefore we must eat wisely to become wise."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Consciousness is the light by which we see ourselves and the world."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Ignorance is not bliss but the source of all human misery."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."James, William
"It is useless to say that it all comes from pure reason or pure sensation; we know now that it comes from the mixture of both."James, William
"The union of the mathematician with the poet founds the entirety of visible things."James, William