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