Knowledge Quotes

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

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"What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?"
Ishmael
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"I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon its top."
Ishmael
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"Ignorance and bungling with respect to some things are not a proof of stupidity."
Charlotte Lucas
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"You teach me now how insufficient were all my former notions of its meaning."
Mr. Darcy
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"The power of understanding came upon me like a revelation"
Pip
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"Who reads the most is he that speaks the least of what he reads."
Ishmael
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"I am never afraid of what I know."
Jane Eyre
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"I see, feel, and understand that which I see and feel."
Ishmael
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"There is no higher power than that given to man by knowledge."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge is power."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge is power, and power is knowledge."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge is power, but it must be tempered with wisdom."
Abbé Faria
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"There is a language in the ocean that few men ever learn."
Ishmael
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"I had been ignorantly blundering on all this time."
Pip
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"Knowledge is the key to liberation."
Abbé Faria
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"To know him, you must know the sea that bears him"
Ishmael
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"Freethinkers are generally those whose reason has not been much exercised."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"To know life, to know mankind, one must read deeply and widely."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Action is the only fruit of knowledge."
Abbé Faria
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
Sancho Panza
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"Knowledge is the only true power that cannot be taken away."
Abbé Faria
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"I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left with the crane still standing upon its top."
Ishmael
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"There exists in this world a thing called knowledge"
Abbé Faria
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"I have studied every language known to man to prepare for this moment"
Monte Cristo
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"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a rudder."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"What do you think of books?"
Mr. Darcy
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
Don Quixote
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"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Knowledge is power."
Abbé Faria