Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge is power only if you know how to use it."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The future belongs to those who understand it first"
Hari Seldon
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"You must learn to see, Paul. Sight is the gift of knowing."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"Knowledge is power, and power is freedom."
Teresa
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"The rate of growth of a civilization is limited by its rate of accumulation of knowledge"
Hari Seldon
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"The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Men thirst for hidden knowledge when they lack it."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Knowledge without application is merely theory."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"He understood warfare intuitively."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"What is crucial is the expansion of human consciousness."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"Memory is a terrible thing to lose."
Thomas
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"Psychohistory deals with mobs and populations, never with individuals"
Hari Seldon
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"Complexity is just a lot of simplicity"
Hari Seldon
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"Mankind's greatest discovery was the discovery of his own mind"
Hari Seldon
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"Knowledge is power only if properly applied"
Hari Seldon
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"The spice extends life and expands consciousness."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Most of the commanders were stronger than Ender. But Ender knew how to think."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The Foundation exists to preserve knowledge through the coming dark age"
Hari Seldon
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"You must understand the enemy to defeat them"
Mazer Rackham
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"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone."
Thufir Hawat
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"The Fremen know the desert as no one else."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone."
Tyrion Lannister
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"Ender learned to think like his enemies so completely he became them."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"To know your enemy is to become your enemy."
Ender Wiggin
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"Individual science and technology must be preserved and kept alive"
Salvor Hardin
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"Scientific truths cannot be withheld from any truly democratic society"
Salvor Hardin
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"The accumulation of knowledge must be preserved for posterity"
Salvor Hardin
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"I'm 50,000 times more intelligent than you and even I don't know what's going on."
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"The future is not fixed; it is probabilistic"
Hari Seldon
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"You must learn to see"
Gaius Helen Mohiam