Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge without the capacity to act is merely idle speculation."
Sophocles
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"Every expert was once a beginner."
Frankie Boyle
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"Knowledge is not power; applied knowledge is power."
Frankie Boyle
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"No one is wise enough by himself."
Aristophanes
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"The greatest enemy is one's own ignorance."
Aristophanes
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"A question not asked is an answer denied."
Aristophanes
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of immortality."
Aristophanes
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"The eye perceives what the mind prepares it to see."
Empedocles
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"Knowledge without virtue is a sword placed in the hands of a madman."
Empedocles
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"The price of knowledge is the loss of innocence and peaceful ignorance."
Empedocles
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"Knowledge without application is like a seed that never takes root."
Democritus
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"The progression from ignorance to knowledge is the greatest of all journeys."
Democritus
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"Knowledge pursued for its own sake is the highest form of achievement."
Democritus
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"To think and to be are one and the same thing."
Parmenides
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"Truth requires us to transcend the realm of sensory perception."
Parmenides
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"The mind that grasps being transcends the illusions of time."
Parmenides
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"To think truly is to think of what is, and nothing else."
Parmenides
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"The mind and what it comprehends are fundamentally one."
Parmenides
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"To know being is to transcend the illusions of change."
Parmenides
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"To think of what is not is to think nothing at all."
Parmenides
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"To grasp the truth is to understand eternal being."
Parmenides
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"To understand is to grasp the eternal unity of being."
Parmenides
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing when to use it."
Peter Kay
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"Knowledge is power, but most powerful people know nothing - they just have money."
Frankie Boyle
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"The path to wisdom is paved with the recognition of our own limitations."
Empedocles
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"Knowledge is power"
Lee Evans
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Sophocles
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"Knowledge without virtue is a dangerous weapon."
Sophocles
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"Hunger for wisdom is the only hunger that grows by feeding."
Sophocles
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Russell Brand