Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Wisdom comes with age and experience."
Septimius Severus
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"All our knowledge begins with curiosity about the natural world."
Pliny the Elder
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"The knowledge that brings no improvement to life is knowledge wasted."
Pliny the Elder
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"The mind that questions everything is the mind that truly thinks."
Cato the Younger
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"A man who does not read is no better than one who cannot read."
Cato the Elder
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"To squander knowledge is to squander the gods' greatest gift."
Cato the Elder
C
"A mind cultivated by learning cannot be enslaved."
Cato the Elder
C
"The greatest wealth is a mind unshackled by ignorance."
Cato the Elder
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"To create lasting change, one must first understand the nature of things."
Diocletian
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"The mark of wisdom is knowing what you do not know."
Diocletian
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"The greatest luxury is knowledge."
Hadrian
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing how to use it."
Hadrian
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"The universe is all connected. All is related to all else."
Antoninus Pius
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"There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance."
Antoninus Pius
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"To understand a people, one must first understand their gods and their hearts."
Constantine I
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"I have discovered that wisdom often comes from those we least expect to teach us."
Constantine I
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"The mind that questions everything learns more than the mind that accepts all."
Cato the Elder
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"To know thyself is to understand thy limitations and possibilities."
Cato the Younger
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"The mind is the only true possession one can never lose."
Cato the Younger
C
"To understand others, one must first understand oneself."
Cato the Younger
C
"Knowledge is power, and power is immortality."
Commodus
C
"Knowledge grows with sharing; it dies with hoarding."
Commodus
C
"It is a peculiar thing that befall men who finally achieve knowledge—they do not know what to do with it."
Cato the Elder
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."
Cato the Elder
C
"The greatest enemy is ignorance."
Cato the Elder
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"To understand your enemy, you must first understand yourself."
Diocletian
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"I learned to see the future by studying the mistakes of the past."
Diocletian
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"Strength without wisdom becomes tyranny."
Septimius Severus
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"Knowledge unshared is knowledge wasted."
Septimius Severus
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"Knowledge shared multiplies; knowledge hoarded withers."
Constantine I