Knowledge Quotes

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

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"I am a man of mind"
Roger Chillingworth
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"Knowledge without action is mere philosophy."
Sancho Panza
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"The pursuit of knowledge without wisdom leads to destruction."
Ivan Karamazov
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Abbé Faria
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"The more lucid I become, the less I understand"
Raskolnikov
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"Knowledge without action is sterile"
Sancho Panza
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"Knowledge is power, and the greatest power is to know oneself."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge is a burden that crushes the weak."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Marya Bolkonskaya
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"To be acutely conscious is a disease."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Knowledge comes not from books alone, but from experience."
Abbé Faria
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"Knowledge of one's unhappiness does not cure it"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Knowledge is power, and I have spent fourteen years acquiring it."
Edmond Dantès
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"I dream of understanding at last some phenomenon of life."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Thought is the property of him alone who has leisure."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Memory is the treasure-house of the mind."
Abbé Faria
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"The pursuit of knowledge is endless."
Abbé Faria
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I have been sometimes mad, but never unwise."
Edmond Dantès
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"The greatest wealth is knowledge."
Abbé Faria
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"To be conscious is to suffer, yet consciousness is the ladder by which we climb toward truth."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Doubt is not weakness but the beginning of wisdom."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The provincial knows everything about nothing."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."
Nick Carraway
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"Knowledge is power."
Abbé Faria
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"I simply believe that it is impossible to prove everything; it is an endless process."
Raskolnikov
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"Knowledge is a heavy burden."
Raskolnikov
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"Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss."
Abbé Faria
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"The more I think, the less I understand."
Raskolnikov