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The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About The Nature Of Knowledge

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu

Knowledge is not a thing to be monopolized; it is a sacred flame that should be kindled in every human heart.
Lucretia Mott

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About The Source Of Knowledge

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Ontology

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
René Descartes

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser

Existence is not a predicate.
Immanuel Kant

The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

To be is to be perceived.
George Berkeley

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Epistemology

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Skepticism

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

The function of skepticism is to challenge, to question, to doubt, and to critically analyze.
Bryant H. McGill

The only way to deal with skepticism is to meet it head-on and examine the evidence.
Michael Shermer

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
Oscar Wilde

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Certainty

The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

Certainty is the enemy of wonder.
Oscar Wilde

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is that we live in a world of uncertainty.
Jonathan Sacks

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Knowledge And Belief

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About The Limits Of Knowledge

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Truth

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand

The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Perception

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein

The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Yvonne Woon

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Consciousness

Consciousness is the fundamental thing in existence. It is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and everything in it.
Deepak Chopra

Consciousness is not just the mere accumulation of information, but the ability to synthesize and make sense of it.
Erol Ozan

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness is the ground of all being, the ultimate reality, the foundation of the universe.
David Chalmers

Consciousness is not a thing or a substance, but a process, a dynamic pattern of activity.
Christof Koch

Consciousness is the awareness of being aware.
Rupert Spira

Consciousness is the light that illuminates all experience.
Ken Wilber

Consciousness is the only reality, and everything else is an illusion.
Erwin Schrödinger

Consciousness is the key to understanding the universe and our place in it.
Roger Penrose

Consciousness is the ultimate mystery, the final frontier of science, and the gateway to understanding the nature of reality.
Stanislav Grof

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Reality

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein

The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing for sure.
Plato

The world is not what it seems; it is infinitely more wonderful.
Richard Maurice Bucke

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.
Thomas Dreier

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Existence

I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes

Existence is beyond the power of words to define.
Lao Tzu

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing at all.
Plato

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Being

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire

The only true knowledge is knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The Metaphysical Of Knowledge Quotes About Essence

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius

The essence of knowledge is not simply having it, but having the humility to admit when we do not know something.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not in its possession, but in its use.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is to know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The essence of knowledge is, having a thing to say, to say it; and having nothing to say, to say nothing.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not to be found in information, but in the transformation of the mind.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not to be found in the accumulation of facts, but in the understanding of their interrelationships.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not in knowing things, but in knowing how to learn.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not in the possession of truth, but in the pursuit of it.
Unknown

The essence of knowledge is not in the answers, but in the questions.
Unknown

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