Knowledge Quotes

"You may not see it now, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else"

"The problem is that once you've seen things, you can't unsee them"

"Everything I had worked for, all of my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and to think."

"I had to learn to think for myself, which meant unlearning everything I thought I knew."

"Dad believed that knowledge was dangerous, but I found it liberating."

"Knowledge gave me the power to question what I had been taught."

"You must never let anything interfere with your curiosity."

"It's not just the names of things that matter, but what they do and how they're used."

"You can never be too careful or too cautious when dealing with words."

"How many people are there in the city?"

"Meanings are not always the same as words."

"I understood that I had been raised not to think, but to obey"

"Once you see the truth, you cannot unsee it"

"Education gave me the language to understand my own life"

"I learned that questioning everything is the beginning of wisdom"

"I can explain all the poems that ever were invented—and a good many that haven't been invented just yet"

"One thought leads to another; one word to the next."

"I learned to read so I could read the scriptures."

"Knowledge became my weapon against the darkness I had been raised in."

"I had to learn how to learn, which was harder than learning itself."

"I learned that the mind is capable of believing almost anything if given no alternative."

"Something's wrong with you, I'm afraid. But what is it?"

"It's rather hard to understand what you mean."

"Words are often used carelessly, as if they were of little consequence."

"A point is the beginning of a line, and a line is the beginning of many things."

"Knowledge is infinite, and that's precisely what makes learning so wonderful."

"Knowledge had changed the way I understood the world."

"I had never heard of the Holocaust."

"I had to unlearn everything I thought I knew."

"Education gave me the tools to understand the world."