Knowledge Quotes

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

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"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying"
Sun Tzu
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"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy"
Sun Tzu
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"There is only one way to learn, it's through action."
The Alchemist
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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing and that is the true sign of culture."
Seneca
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"In my youth, I believed knowledge came from books; in my age, I know it comes from living."
Siddhartha
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"The language of the world is more important than the languages of men."
The Alchemist
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"Every spider knows how to make a web"
Charlotte A. Cavatica
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"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Seneca
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"I know who you are."
Justice Wargrave
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"The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things."
Henry David Thoreau
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
Zarathustra
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"Even the knowledge of good and evil requires strength."
Zarathustra
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"The human mind is a curious instrument."
Armstrong
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"I can explain all the poems that were ever invented—and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."
Humpty Dumpty
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"This must be the wood where things have no names."
Alice
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"The world speaks in many languages"
The Alchemist
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"Intellect is now light and weight to me; a third thing I have learned to want."
Zarathustra
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"Your brain is like a television set that can pick up an infinite number of channels"
Miss Honey
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"I found it in a book"
Matilda Wormwood
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"Brains are not meant to sit idle"
Miss Honey
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"I think I should understand that better if I had it written down."
Alice
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"If you lived in the Forest, you'd learn that water trickles downwards after rain."
Owl
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"Reading is important because if you can read you can learn anything"
Matilda Wormwood
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"It's dreadful to think of all the things there are that I don't know anything about."
Anne Shirley
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"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can it dare?"
Zarathustra
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
Zarathustra
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"What is not thought is not lived."
Zarathustra
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"I can explain all the poems that ever were invented."
Humpty Dumpty
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"You may not have lived much under the sea, but that is no excuse for not knowing what a Lobster Quadrille is."
Mock Turtle
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"Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."
Matilda Wormwood