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