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