Knowledge Quotes

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

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"To know something is to control it"
Thufir Hawat
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"The price of knowledge is always paid in blood"
Paul Atreides
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"Intelligence is not about knowing facts, it's about knowing where to find them"
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"Every person I meet is a book I must learn to read."
Genly Ai
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"He understood them better than they understood themselves."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"To know is to have power over."
Thufir Hawat
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"Only by understanding the past can we shape the future"
Hari Seldon
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"I am thinking of my world, of Earth, and of the fact that I don't know it at all."
Kris Kelvin
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"You must learn to see."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"You always were intelligent, Ender."
Mazer Rackham
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"A psychohistorian is a man who is supposed to know all the habits of human beings"
Hari Seldon
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"Knowledge is power, but only if it is shared"
Hari Seldon
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"We mistake repetition for understanding."
Kris Kelvin
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"I am that which speaks with the authority of those who know."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"To know a thing, one must know its beginnings."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"There are proven methods for identifying a safe source of water on Arrakis."
Paul Atreides
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"The ability to do is limited by the knowledge of what can be done."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"It is a mistake to overlook the obvious"
Hari Seldon
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"The obvious cannot be seen"
Salvor Hardin
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"Knowledge is power."
Cersei Lannister
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"Knowledge is power, and they wanted me to have it all."
Ender Wiggin
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"I can understand anything if I try hard enough."
Ender Wiggin
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"Genius is the ability to see connections others cannot."
Graff
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"Knowledge of spice is the greatest knowledge."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"Knowledge itself is power, but only when wielded with purpose"
Hari Seldon
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"If I am to kill the Formic Queen, I must understand her utterly."
Ender Wiggin
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"They had learned that they had to be clever."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"You cannot know the future. You can only know the past and speculate on the present."
Thufir Hawat
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"The highest function of consciousness is the awareness of multiple paths."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Knowledge is power"
Tyrion Lannister