Knowledge Quotes

"The mind's power to understand things is in proportion to its own perfection."

"The highest activity of the mind is to think ideas of greater and lesser complexity."

"Knowledge is power, and power is the ability to impose one's will upon the world."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"Memory is the treasury of all learning."

"Knowledge breaks the chains of ignorance."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time."

"Whoever is capable of knowing anything is capable of knowing that he knows it."

"Knowledge is power only when put to use."

"The scope of knowledge is not bounded by what has already been discovered; it stretches forward to infinite possibility."

"All our knowledge begins with sensation, proceeds to reflection, and ends in reason."

"The mind is at first like a blank slate upon which experience writes."

"Sapere aude! Dare to know! This is the motto of enlightenment."

"Enlightenment is man's release from self-imposed tutelage."

"The pursuit of knowledge is never complete; it is an eternal journey."

"Un pueblo ignorante es instrumento ciego de su propia destrucción."

"Un pueblo que no conoce su historia está condenado a repetirla."

"La ignorancia es la cadena de la esclavitud."

"No hay enemigo más peligroso que la ignorancia."

"La ignorancia ha sido siempre el instrumento de la tiranía."

"La ignorancia y el despotismo son hermanos gemelos."

"Superstition is the natural child of ignorance."

"The greatest of all human achievements is to understand our own understanding."

"To avoid all mistakes and absurdities, let us take a review of the principles from which any human knowledge must be derived."

"The pursuit of knowledge is an endless journey, not a destination to be reached."

"Knowledge is the weapon that cannot be taken from you."

"He who has a true understanding of things desires nothing else than to understand them."

"The more hatred one feels toward the world, the more one fails to understand it."