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