Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of… — Carl Jung
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold… — Sigmund Freud
We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully… — Carl Rogers
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. — Erich Fromm
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge… — Viktor E. Frankl
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal… — Jacques Maritain
This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this… — Michael Chekhov
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.Â Authentic philosophizing… — Herbert Marcuse
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All our knowledge begins with the senses, — Immanuel Kant
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like… — Michel Foucault
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity… — Ralph Ellison
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same… — Sophie Kinsella
No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who… — Malcolm Lowry
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence… — Charles Babbage
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. — Grace Hopper

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