Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge is the noblest of pleasures."
Averroes
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"The mind is the measure of all things."
Averroes
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"The pursuit of knowledge is a form of worship."
Averroes
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"The rational soul is the highest achievement of nature."
Averroes
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"The work of understanding is never truly complete."
Averroes
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"The nature of man is to desire knowledge; to long after it and to increase in understanding."
Maimonides
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"Seek knowledge in all places, for wisdom is not confined to the learned."
Maimonides
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"The purpose of knowledge is not knowledge itself, but right action."
Maimonides
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"Ignorance is the only true darkness; knowledge is the only true light."
Maimonides
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"The soul without knowledge is like a body without sustenance."
Maimonides
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"To understand is to bridge the gap between ignorance and truth."
Maimonides
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"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole of nature."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Understanding is the same as increasing one's power."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The mind is eternal insofar as it understands all things as necessary."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The mind's power is determined solely by knowledge."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
Descartes, René
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"Human knowledge is the aggregate of all that we have come to know in our experience."
Descartes, René
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"The two operations of the human understanding are conception and judgment."
Descartes, René
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"To know nothing but to think we know is the greatest evil."
Descartes, René
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"Knowledge is power, but only when properly applied."
Descartes, René
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"In the darkness of ignorance, a single lamp of knowledge illuminates the way."
Avicenna
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"Knowledge without action is like a tree without fruit."
Al-Ghazali
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"Knowledge of evil is not evil, but ignorance is a different kind of blindness."
Al-Ghazali
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"Seek not to understand so that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Curiosity is the gateway to knowledge."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Knowledge is power."
Thomas Aquinas
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"All knowledge is ultimately self-knowledge."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The mind is perfected by the perfection of its objects."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The intellect cannot suffer the void."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The mind can never rest in the uncertain."
Thomas Aquinas