Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Religion often contains the wisdom of the ancients."Thufir Hawat
"Knowledge and power are joined."Thufir Hawat
"Now I understand what intelligence really is. It's the ability to see what others cannot."Charlie Gordon
"We cannot own what we do not understand."Shevek
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is quite clear."Sherlock Holmes
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."Sherlock Holmes
"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it."Sherlock Holmes
"My dear Watson, you have not really a very remarkable faculty for observation."Sherlock Holmes
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence."Sherlock Holmes
"I want to know everything. I want to learn everything that there is to know."Charlie Gordon
"Learning has made me understand my own limitations."Charlie Gordon
"Knowledge is the weapon that never rusts."Thufir Hawat
"Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion."Shevek
"Elementary, my dear fellow."Sherlock Holmes
"It is my business to know things."Sherlock Holmes
"Knowledge is power in all things."Sherlock Holmes
"To be intelligent is to be aware of one's own ignorance."Charlie Gordon
"What do you see, Paul Muad'Dib?"Gaius Helen Mohiam
"To understand the universe, one must first understand the self."Paul Atreides
"In learning to speak to others, I learned to speak to myself."Shevek
"To know oneself is to know the world."Shevek
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"You know my methods, Watson."Sherlock Holmes
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic."Sherlock Holmes
"I see no data yet."Sherlock Holmes
"It is my business to know things."Sherlock Holmes
"You may have observed that in this notebook I jot down these singular cases."Sherlock Holmes
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."Sherlock Holmes
"You have it, Watson. You have become positively encyclopedic."Sherlock Holmes
"You know my methods, Watson."Sherlock Holmes
