Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Understanding requires both analysis and synthesis."Leibniz, Gottfried
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."Locke, John
"Confusion being a disorder of the mind, we must chiefly work to clear it."Locke, John
"Curiosity is but the desire of knowledge."Locke, John
"The mind must be free to think clearly about its own nature."Locke, John
"Knowledge is the life of the mind."Al-Ghazali
"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."Al-Ghazali
"A man may be learned but without understanding, and understanding is better than learning."Al-Ghazali
"He who seeks knowledge seeks a responsibility."Al-Ghazali
"The mind is like a mirror; polish it daily with knowledge."Al-Ghazali
"Knowledge is power."Avicenna
"Good health requires good knowledge."Avicenna
"Knowledge without action is worthless."Avicenna
"The human intellect is the image of the Creator within us."Maimonides
"The scholar who refuses to learn from others forfeits wisdom."Maimonides
"The pursuit of knowledge is a sacred obligation, not a luxury."Maimonides
"Knowledge without application is like a tree that bears no fruit."Maimonides
"The mind that doubts is the mind that grows; certainty leads to stagnation."Maimonides
"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union of the mind with the whole of nature."Spinoza, Baruch
"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."Spinoza, Baruch
"Inadequate ideas are the source of human bondage and suffering."Spinoza, Baruch
"Knowledge of the first kind is imagination; knowledge of the second kind is reason; knowledge of the third kind is intuition."Spinoza, Baruch
"Insofar as the mind perceives all things as necessary, it has a certain power of determining the emotions."Spinoza, Baruch
"Knowledge of good and evil is nothing but an affect of joy or sadness insofar as we are conscious of it."Spinoza, Baruch
"Inadequate ideas are the cause of falsity."Spinoza, Baruch
"Memory is the thread that weaves our identity."Leibniz, Gottfried
"We perceive only a small portion of what exists."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Knowledge without application remains incomplete."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Knowledge is power only when applied with wisdom."Leibniz, Gottfried
"Human nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."Hume, David