Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The heart knows secrets the mind cannot fathom."
Lucy Westenra
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"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so."
Jo March
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"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part"
Jonathan Harker
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"I have for many years devoted myself to the study of obscure diseases"
Van Helsing
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"The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he has lost his queen bee"
Van Helsing
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"I went to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so."
Jo March
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"That is a very Earthling thing to do. I'd never heard of it before."
Tralfamadorian
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"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so."
Jo March
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"Talent isn't genius."
Jo March
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"Zoology can explain the behavior of animals, but it cannot explain myself."
Pi Patel
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"I wanted to know about it"
Huckleberry Finn
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"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so."
Jo March
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"Knowledge is the only freedom they cannot take."
Laila
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"There are other things in life than what you read in books."
Jean Valjean
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"The mind is a strange thing, master of illusions."
Pi Patel
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"Reason is excellent for getting around in the world."
Pi Patel
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"A person can't take a gun that has got a crack in it."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I learned the language of the animals: a vast vocabulary of snarls and chirps and grunts."
Pi Patel
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"The mind is a wonderful instrument."
Pi Patel
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"He studied the bones with scholarly interest"
Judge Holden
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"What is not known cannot be said to be."
Judge Holden
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"The world existed for him to know it."
Judge Holden
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"Zoos are not failed attempts at wilderness. They are carefully recreated ecosystems."
Pi Patel
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"The world cannot be known. It can only be encountered."
Judge Holden
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"The world you see now, it's just the merest sliver of it."
Sheriff Bell
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"There is no such thing as knowledge which is not power."
Judge Holden
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"I don't understand it, and I'm not sure I want to."
Sheriff Bell
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"A person can't work good in the dark."
Tom Sawyer
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"I accept now that I was looking for myself in words of others."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)