Knowledge Quotes

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

31147 quotes

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"In the assembly of the foolish, the wise man holds his tongue."
Aristophanes
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"The greatest impediment to knowledge is the assumption that one already possesses it."
Aristophanes
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"There is one thing alone that stands the test of time: it is the quality of one's ideas."
Euripides
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"Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to heaven."
Euripides
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"The pursuit of truth must never cease."
Euripides
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"To know oneself is to recognize one's place within the boundless whole."
Anaximander
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"To understand lightning is to understand the energy that drives all life."
Anaximander
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"The astronomer who reads the stars reads the book of fate."
Anaximander
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"To understand one thing fully is to begin understanding all things."
Anaximander
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"To understand the least thing is to glimpse the infinite."
Anaximander
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"Know what you own and own what you know."
Democritus
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"The desire for understanding is implanted in man by nature."
Democritus
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"I would rather discover one true cause than win the kingdom of Persia."
Democritus
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"The nature of error is to believe that one knows what one does not know."
Democritus
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"Our thoughts, like air currents, move between the finite and infinite."
Anaximenes
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"Believe not what you are told, but what you can reason from nature."
Anaximenes
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"Knowledge without application is merely the accumulation of words."
Anaximenes
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"The limits of my language are the limits of my world"
Empedocles
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"Knowledge is power over circumstance"
Empedocles
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"The roots of all knowledge are bitter"
Empedocles
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"To know is to become"
Empedocles
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"Understanding requires the death of certainty"
Empedocles
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"The same thing exists for thinking and for being."
Parmenides
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"Sensory experience deceives us."
Parmenides
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"Trust not your senses; trust reason alone."
Parmenides
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"Reality transcends human perception."
Parmenides
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"Error comes from confusing being with becoming."
Parmenides
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"The senses lead us away from truth."
Parmenides
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"True knowledge is knowledge of being."
Parmenides
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"Reality transcends the categories of our ordinary experience."
Parmenides