Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Ignorance is the only slavery; knowledge is the only freedom."
Marx, Karl
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"Universal enlightenment is the condition of genuine freedom."
Marx, Karl
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses."
Kant, Immanuel
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"There is no royal road to science."
Kant, Immanuel
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"One cannot deny that all our knowledge begins with experience."
Kant, Immanuel
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"A man may know the world without ever leaving his house."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Reason is the foundation of all knowledge."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Consciousness requires struggle for self-development."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Knowledge demands the death of particularity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Sensible objects are all immediately perceivable, and nothing is perceived but ideas"
Berkeley, George
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"Knowledge is power, yet power is not knowledge"
Berkeley, George
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"Doubt is the key to knowledge"
Berkeley, George
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"Curiosity is the first step toward knowledge"
Berkeley, George
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"The pursuit of knowledge is endless; it is a journey, not a destination"
Berkeley, George
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"Knowledge without the desire for truth is merely the accumulation of facts."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Great minds are capable of great mistakes as well as great truths."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Ignorance is the soil from which despotism grows."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"A man cannot be satisfied with a superficial knowledge of truth."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"In pure experience, truths emerge."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Not till we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."
Kant, Immanuel
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"All our knowledge is, so to speak, at a height from the ground."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is merely intellectual play."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Understanding is intelligence applied."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Without sensibility, the intellect is empty; without understanding, the senses are blind."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The understanding is a faculty that thinks, and reason is a faculty that judges."
Kant, Immanuel
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"We can know phenomena, but we can never know the thing-in-itself."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Knowledge is power only when it is applied with moral purpose."
Kant, Immanuel