Knowledge Quotes

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

31147 quotes

G
"They read the codices as if reading a newspaper from the future."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"I know nothing which I have not forgotten."
Judge Holden
C
"My magic is in knowing what others refuse to see."
Circe
J
"The world is certainly round."
José Arcadio Buendía
G
"The parchments held the secrets of eternity."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"You think there is something which you do not know"
Judge Holden
D
"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her that she didn't already know?"
Death
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Judge Holden
J
"The judge said that nature was a thing that had to be conquered and catalogued."
Judge Holden
P
"I have always lived in the House."
Piranesi
P
"My journals are all I truly know of myself."
Piranesi
C
"I found my magic not in spells, but in understanding"
Circe
J
"The world is certainly round, but nobody knows what shape it really is"
José Arcadio Buendía
G
"The secrets of the past were locked in manuscripts no one could read."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Judge Holden
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The manuscripts contained the entire history of the town written in advance."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are hidden away in books is mistaken."
Judge Holden
C
"Magic asks only that you listen."
Circe
H
"Ghosts don't eat, Nearly Headless Nick."
Harry Potter
A
"The mind is not a read-only thing"
Albus Dumbledore
J
"Whatever is in the world may be said to be known."
Judge Holden
J
"Everything to be known is already known."
Judge Holden
R
"The mind is a powerful thing."
Remus Lupin
A
"Knowledge is the greatest weapon against fear."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Curiosity is a powerful thing."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Ignorance is not bliss, it is just ignorance."
Albus Dumbledore
H
"The pursuit of knowledge has no boundaries."
Hermione Granger
R
"Knowledge is protection against darkness."
Remus Lupin
J
"The world cannot be known. It can only be encountered."
Judge Holden