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