Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes on Knowledge
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and the most influential systematic thinker of the German Idealist tradition. This page collects quotes attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“What is rational is actual; what is actual is rational.”
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.”
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking.”
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Attributed to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.”