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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Memory is the foundation of all wisdom.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Memory is the key to wisdom.
Baltasar Gracián
Memory is the mother and nurse of all virtues.
Saint Augustine
Memory is the library of the mind.
Francis Fauquier
Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.
Unknown
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All knowledge is socially constructed, but some constructions are more accurate than others.
Ernest Becker
Truth is a relationship between language and the world.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Knowledge is not a collection of facts, but a web of interconnected ideas.
James Burke
The truth is not always what we want to hear, but it is always what we need to know.
Unknown
Knowledge is power, but it is also a responsibility.
Unknown
Knowledge is not a fixed and static thing, but a dynamic and evolving process.
Unknown
The truth is not a destination, but a journey.
Unknown
Knowledge is not just a product of individual effort, but a collective enterprise.
Unknown
The truth is not always easy to find, but it is always worth seeking.
Unknown
Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature's reasoning itself.
Martha Nussbaum
Emotions are the glue that binds people together.
Terry Tempest Williams
Emotions are the primary architects for our individual and collective realities.
Brené Brown
Emotions are the lenses through which we view the world.
David G. Myers
Emotions are not just feelings; they are also cognitive appraisals.
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Emotions are the foundation of reason.
Antonio Damasio
Emotions are the key to the doorway of knowledge.
Rita Mae Brown
Emotions are the raw materials of knowledge.
Martha C. Nussbaum
Emotions are the currency of knowledge.
Linda Stone
All knowledge is socially constructed, and the social context of knowledge production shapes the content and form of knowledge.
Lorraine Code
The way we know things is always shaped by our values and beliefs, and these in turn are shaped by our social and cultural context.
Clifford Geertz
Ethics is not just a matter of personal opinion, it is also a matter of social and cultural norms that shape our understanding of what is right and wrong.
Michael Lambek
The relationship between knowledge and ethics is complex and multifaceted, and it requires us to think critically about the values and assumptions that underlie our understanding of the world.
Sandra Harding
Knowledge is not just a matter of facts and information, it is also a matter of interpretation and meaning, and this is always shaped by our ethical and moral commitments.
Bruno Latour
The way we think about knowledge and ethics is always shaped by our social and historical context, and this means that our understanding of these concepts is always changing and evolving.
Michel Foucault
The relationship between knowledge and ethics is not just a matter of individual responsibility, it is also a matter of collective action and social change.
Nancy Tuana
The way we produce and use knowledge has ethical implications, and we need to be aware of these implications if we want to create a more just and equitable society.
Sylvia Wynter
The colonial encounter is a relationship of power, and in such a relationship, the power to name, to define, to prescribe, and to construct is the power to dominate.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The colonial world is a world divided into compartments.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a Manichean world.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a world cut in two.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a world divided into a multitude of sectors.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a world divided into pieces.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a world divided into a hierarchy of races.
Frantz Fanon
The colonial world is a world divided into a hierarchy of civilizations.
Frantz Fanon
Colonialism not only deprives a society of its freedom and its wealth, but of its very character, leaving its people intellectually and morally disoriented.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
Donna Haraway
The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris
The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
The internet is not just a technology, it's a cultural artifact.
Norbert Wiener
The more we rely on machines to make decisions for us, the more our own cognitive abilities will atrophy.
Nicholas Carr
The internet is a giant copy machine.
Kevin Kelly
The internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Eric Schmidt
Belief is the antithesis of knowing, and belief-systems are the principal barrier to the development of knowledge.
Paul Feyerabend
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Clifford Geertz
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is power, but it is a power that must be tempered by wisdom, which is the understanding of how to use that power.
Margaret Mead
Belief is the acceptance of something as true without evidence or proof; knowledge is the acceptance of something as true because of evidence or proof.
Richard Dawkins
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever-increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
Paul Feyerabend
Belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, but it is not a sufficient condition.
Alvin Plantinga
Knowledge is not a possession to be guarded; it is a tool to be used.
Dan Brown
Belief is the emotional state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Clifford Geertz
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Clifford Geertz
Culture is a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms.
Clifford Geertz
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Plutarch
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The way we talk to ourselves about our experiences shapes how we feel about them.
Ethan Kross
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
The world is not given to us, but is constructed by us.
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The social world is not a given, but a product of human actions.
Berger and Luckmann
Reality is socially constructed and can be reconstructed.
Sally Haslanger
The way we think about the world is shaped by the social and cultural context in which we live.
Clifford Geertz
The world is a product of our collective imagination.
Benedict Anderson
Our knowledge of the world is always mediated by our social and cultural experiences.
Michel Foucault
We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
The social construction of reality is an ongoing process that is constantly being negotiated and re-negotiated.
Peter Kivisto
Knowledge is not just a product of individual minds, but a social product, reflecting the power and interests of those who produce it.
Michel Foucault
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
William Isaac Thomas
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
The knowledge that we have is not absolute, but always culturally constructed and historically situated.
Donna Haraway
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
The power of the knowledge that is produced in the academy is often used to reinforce existing power relations in society.
bell hooks
Knowledge is not neutral. It is always situated in a particular social and historical context, and reflects the interests and values of those who produce it.
Sandra Harding
The knowledge that is produced and disseminated in society is always shaped by the power relations that exist within that society.
Edward Said
The relationship between knowledge and power is always a contested one, with different groups and individuals seeking to control and shape the production and dissemination of knowledge.
Stuart Hall
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the means of meaning-making and knowledge-sharing.
Michael Agar
Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.
Arrival (2016 film)
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Knowledge is not simply a matter of acquiring new information or memorizing facts, but is deeply intertwined with our identities and experiences.
Sarah Pink
Our knowledge is shaped by our social and cultural contexts, and in turn, our knowledge shapes our identities and the way we see the world.
Jean Lave
Knowledge is not a neutral or objective concept, but is always situated within particular power relations and social hierarchies.
Sandra Harding
Our identities are not fixed or predetermined, but are constantly shaped and reshaped by the knowledge we acquire and the experiences we have.
Stuart Hall
The knowledge we possess is not just a reflection of our individual abilities, but is also shaped by the communities and cultures we belong to.
Clifford Geertz
The intersection of knowledge and identity is a complex and dynamic process that involves both individual and collective experiences.
Donna Haraway
Our identities are not just shaped by the knowledge we possess, but also by the knowledge we are denied or excluded from.
bell hooks
The way we understand and interpret knowledge is deeply influenced by our personal histories and the social contexts in which we live.
Pierre Bourdieu
The relationship between knowledge and identity is not one-way, but is a reciprocal process in which our identities shape the knowledge we produce and the knowledge we produce shapes our identities.
Sara Ahmed
The politics of knowledge are real, and they are not reducible to the politics of academia.
Sara Ahmed
The knowledge that is produced in the academy is not the only knowledge that matters.
Eve Tuck
The politics of knowledge production are deeply intertwined with the politics of identity.
Audre Lorde
The knowledge that is produced in the West is often presented as universal, but it is really just one perspective among many.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The politics of knowledge production are intimately tied to questions of power and privilege.
bell hooks
The knowledge that is produced in the academy is often used to reinforce existing power structures.
Edward Said
The politics of knowledge production are not just about who gets to speak, but also about who gets to listen.
Sandra Harding
The politics of knowledge production are not just about what we know, but also about what we don't know.
Donna Haraway
Institutions are the social structures that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge.
Thomas Gieryn
Institutions are the scaffolding of knowledge production.
Karina Kiel
Institutions are the gatekeepers of knowledge.
Pierre Bourdieu
Institutions are the custodians of knowledge.
Mary Douglas
Institutions are the mediators of knowledge.
Michel Foucault
Institutions are the architects of knowledge.
Bruno Latour
Institutions are the engines of knowledge.
Robert Merton
Institutions are the frameworks of knowledge.
Clifford Geertz
Institutions are the molds of knowledge.
Karl Mannheim
All knowledge is socially constructed, but some more than others.
George Boas
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The more one knows, the less one believes.
Jules Renard
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