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."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"Knowing where the trap is makes the trap worthless."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"I had to know if she was real."
Rick Deckard
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"Gethenian minds work differently; they do not leap to conclusions"
Genly Ai
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"To understand another being completely is perhaps impossible."
Kris Kelvin
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"This is rather odd. What's happened to the libraries?"
Zarniwoop
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"To know something of significance is to be burdened by it"
Paul Atreides
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"Ender could see the pattern now, and by seeing the pattern Ender could touch it."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"I drink and I know things."
Tyrion Lannister
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"The way to win is to find the pattern in things."
Mazer Rackham
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"There's a pattern in all things, and when you see it, you can see what's coming."
Ender Wiggin
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"In the darkness of ignorance, we search for truth"
Genly Ai
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"What seems alien becomes familiar through understanding"
Genly Ai
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"To know one's self is a beginning of wisdom."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"I understand perfectly. You are astronauts, apes, evolutionarily speaking."
HAL 9000
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"The greatest strategy is to know yourself and know your enemy."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The burden of knowledge is that you can never unknow it."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"I've learned that human ingenuity is our greatest tool."
Mark Watney
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"The mind that comes to a new land must come as a blank slate."
Genly Ai
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"To learn a language is to understand a way of being."
Genly Ai
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"Understanding the enemy is everything."
Mazer Rackham
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"I understand now. I understand what you made me do."
Ender Wiggin
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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news"
The Hitchhiker's Guide itself
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"Solaris does not answer our questions; it reflects them back to us."
Kris Kelvin
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"Knowledge of a particular evil does not lead automatically to tolerance of it."
Gaius Helen Mohiam
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"Potatoes are a no-brainer. I've got Martian soil, which is more or less a blank slate."
Mark Watney
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"I need to think like a scientist, not an emotional human."
Mark Watney
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"The mind is a different place on a different world"
Genly Ai
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"Humans are pattern-making creatures. It is our nature to impose order on chaos"
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions