Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The mind is more powerful than the body."
Abbé Faria
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"There are only two sources of dishonor: poverty and ignorance."
Don Quixote
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"Knowledge is the most precious of all treasures"
Abbé Faria
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"All we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Know thyself; this is the first philosophy."
Abbé Faria
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"I want to know life as it really is."
Levin
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"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."
Abbé Faria
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"The mind is mightier than the body."
Abbé Faria
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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Nothing is so important as not to be able to be mistaken about it."
Levin
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"Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul."
Don Quixote
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"The path to wisdom begins with the acceptance of our ignorance."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Knowledge is power."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge is power."
Abbé Faria
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Levin
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"Knowledge without practice is like fruit that never ripens."
Don Quixote
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"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Do you prefer reading to walking?"
Jane Bennet
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"A man becomes learned by reading books; but he becomes wise by reading life."
Abbé Faria
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"We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves."
Abbé Faria
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"He understood that life was more complex than he had imagined"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The greatest pleasure of a thinking man is to learn the causes of things."
Don Quixote
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"Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Don Quixote
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"Knowledge is power."
Don Quixote
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"You have a soul. Learn to know it."
Fantine
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"The hardest thing in life is to know yourself."
Sonya
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"What is the difference between knowledge and imagination?"
Levin