Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Knowledge without compassion is cruelty"Shevek
"To understand him, you have to go inside his mind."Jack Crawford
"Knowledge is power."Jack Crawford
"Data, data, data! I cannot make bricks without clay."Sherlock Holmes
"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."Sherlock Holmes
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data."Sherlock Holmes
"My mind is like a crowded box-room."Sherlock Holmes
"I have learned that the self is the greatest teacher."Siddhartha
"To know oneself is to know all things."Siddhartha
"True knowledge is knowing what you truly know and what you do not."Chiang
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom."Siddhartha
"The Desert will give you an understanding of pleasure"The Alchemist
"Baobabs are enormous trees. With a tree, it's a matter of surgery"The Narrator (Pilot)
"There is no mystery. There is only what you understand and what you do not understand"The Narrator (Pilot)
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"The wise men, they don't give you answers that enable you to see light. They just mimic you and ask you more questions."The Little Prince
"When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking"Siddhartha
"Nothing in the world is more important than learning to read the omens"Melchizedek
"Self-knowledge is the beginning of all wisdom."Siddhartha
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life."The Alchemist
"To understand one thing thoroughly is to understand all things."Siddhartha
"The mind can be as dangerous as any weapon."Armstrong
"At the Soul of the World, there is a language that all things understand"The Alchemist
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life"The Alchemist
"You can learn knowledge, you can learn everything that others have learned, but you cannot learn wisdom."Govinda
"The Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life are real"The Alchemist
"We are all capable of understanding the language that the universe speaks"The Alchemist
"The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding."The Prophet (Almustafa)
