Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge of the real conditions of labor is the first step toward liberation."
Vladimir Lenin
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"To understand the future, study the past; to change the future, study the present."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Nelson Mandela
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"Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations."
Nelson Mandela
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"Without the discipline of knowing the facts, we cannot properly govern."
Nelson Mandela
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"The price of any sight is that you must never close your eyes again."
Winston Churchill
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"The reader of the daily newspaper is better informed than he was 100 years ago, but he understands it less."
Winston Churchill
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"Knowledge is power"
Jorge Edwards
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"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you"
Jorge Edwards
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Language carries the weight of history in every word we choose to speak."
Jorge Edwards
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"The prison's highest wall cannot stop the power of knowledge and ideas."
Nelson Mandela
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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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"The most dangerous thing in the world is to really think."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Winston Churchill
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"All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by their right names."
Winston Churchill
"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Knowledge gained through personal experience is far superior to bookish knowledge."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A young man has not finished his education when he has passed his examinations."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"To understand a nation, you must read its literature as carefully as you read its laws."
Jorge Edwards
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"Language is the architecture of thought."
Jorge Edwards
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"To know yourself is to know your culture."
Jorge Edwards
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"I am writing to discover what I think."
Kathy Acker
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"Knowledge is power, but power corrupts."
Kathy Acker