Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay"Sherlock Holmes
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is quite clear."Sherlock Holmes
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."Sherlock Holmes
"Elementary, my dear fellow."Sherlock Holmes
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."Sherlock Holmes
"You see everything. You observe nothing."Sherlock Holmes
"The greatest scholars are those who learned humility."Takver
"I want to understand what is happening to me."Charlie Gordon
"Some knowledge cannot be unlearned."Charlie Gordon
"I know him the way he knows himself."Clarice Starling
"I know all about you."Clarice Starling
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"It is my business to know what other people don't know."Sherlock Holmes
"A little monograph upon the thousand-and-one little threads."Sherlock Holmes
"The only real difference between me and them is that they were born into a world that expected them to be intelligent."Charlie Gordon
"Knowledge must be shared to have meaning."Shevek
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is quite clear."Sherlock Holmes
"You know my methods, Watson."Sherlock Holmes
"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum."Sherlock Holmes
"Has anything escaped me? I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?"Sherlock Holmes
"The world speaks many different languages."The Alchemist
"There is a universal language that transcends all things."The Alchemist
"I have learned through yearning."Siddhartha
"Cannibals would never say anything about it. Taxonomy is a Minotaur of a field."Hannibal Lecter
"You're not more intelligent than I am, you're just well trained."Hannibal Lecter
"You're not very mnemonic, are you?"Hannibal Lecter
"You're beginning to understand something."Hannibal Lecter
"All the way to level three consciousness."Hannibal Lecter
