Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge begins with practice; having learned something, we must then repeatedly practice it."
Mao Zedong
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"Investigation and study constitute the most important links in all our work."
Mao Zedong
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"Knowledge is the weapon that cannot be confiscated or destroyed by those in power."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"A very dangerous type of person is one who imagines himself to be thinking when he is merely rearranging his prejudices."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Without a correct theory, we cannot have correct practice."
Leon Trotsky
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"The consciousness of the working class must be raised through correct theory."
Leon Trotsky
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"Knowledge without action is complicity with the existing order."
Leon Trotsky
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"Knowledge without action is useless"
Joseph Stalin
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"Knowledge is power over others"
Joseph Stalin
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"Knowledge without action is merely entertainment."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid."
Winston Churchill
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"The greatest advances in human knowledge have always been the most unpopular."
Winston Churchill
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"The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States expressing their combined wisdom."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Learning is a weapon that no bureaucrat can confiscate."
Leon Trotsky
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"Knowledge without practice is like a tree without fruit."
Vladimir Lenin
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The mind is like a parachute; it works best when it is open"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Knowledge is power, but only when applied."
Joseph Stalin
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"Knowledge without discipline is dangerous."
Joseph Stalin
"Knowledge without character is dangerous."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Knowledge of self is the beginning of all wisdom."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"The dark abyss of history is only illuminated by the knowledge of what came before."
Winston Churchill
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"Knowledge is the treasure of the wise man."
Winston Churchill
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated, becomes an automatic reflex."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Knowledge without application is merely entertainment."
Benito Mussolini
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"Every strike teaches the worker more than a hundred speeches can."
Vladimir Lenin