Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The more the mind understands all things as necessary, the greater is the power of the mind."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The knowledge of evil is an inadequate knowledge."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Ignorance is not innocence, but a state of privation."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The greatest good is the improvement of one's understanding."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Know that according to the judgment of all wise men, there are two things in the universe that cannot be doubted."
Maimonides
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"The pursuit of knowledge is a pursuit of happiness."
Maimonides
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"Seek knowledge as if your life depends on it."
Maimonides
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"We must renounce the theory that the mind is furnished with a series of innate ideas and principles."
Hume, David
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"All knowledge resolves itself into probability."
Hume, David
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"The chief advantage of knowledge lies in being able to instil virtue."
Hume, David
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"The notion of causation is not derived from reason, but from experience."
Hume, David
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"All knowledge begins with wonder."
Berkeley, George
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"The objects of human knowledge are of two sorts: ideas and notions."
Berkeley, George
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"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."
Berkeley, George
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"Words are signs of ideas, and ideas are the substance of knowledge."
Berkeley, George
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"All knowledge is relative to the mind that perceives it."
Berkeley, George
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"Doubt is the key to knowledge."
Descartes, René
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"Perfect knowledge exists in so far as the knower comprehends the thing known."
Descartes, René
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"If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Descartes, René
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"The only thing we can know for certain is that we think."
Descartes, René
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"There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
Descartes, René
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"Knowledge is power, especially when you know how to use it."
Descartes, René
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"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."
Descartes, René
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"There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Reason is the principle of all things."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The path to wisdom begins with wonder."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Memory is the treasury of the mind."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
Leibniz, Gottfried