Knowledge Quotes

"Awakening should lead to the next level of understanding."

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."

"The test of all knowledge is its utility; ideas without application are mere abstractions."

"It is not consciousness that determines being, but social being that determines consciousness"

"Consciousness is determined by life, not life by consciousness"

"Language is practical consciousness that exists for other people and therefore exists for me as well"

"The most violent element in society is ignorance"

"Man's consciousness changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence"

"Without consciousness, even the greatest deeds remain unconscious acts"

"The most important knowledge is that which helps us understand our place in society."

"Our intellectual duty is to establish a science of society as rigorous as physics."

"The positive method banishes intellectual uncertainty by grounding knowledge in observable facts."

"The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side."

"An opinion that cotton is an excellent material to stuff a bed with may be held as firmly as an opinion about gravitation."

"The highest being is not one that exists, but one that is thought."

"The greatest discoveries come from questioning what others assume to be true."

"The Absolutely True reveals itself only in thought."

"What the subject is objectively, that it is for itself too; it is in the position of standing in relation to itself."

"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."

"Consciousness is a being for which being is an object because its being is intentional."

"The understanding of the particular requires the universal."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"The man of knowledge does not love any longer."

"There is nothing against which an animal has more warning than against following the wandering of his own mind."

"The more comprehensively one sees, the more one is in despair."

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of their causes."

"The pleasures of the intellect are far superior to those of sense."

"Knowledge is power; ignorance is submission."

"To increase human happiness, we must increase human knowledge and rational capacity."