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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"El conocimiento es poder, pero la sabiduría es libertad."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"El conocimiento sin humildad es pura arrogancia."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"El conocimiento es el viaje, no el destino."
Garcilaso de la Vega
"Knowledge without compassion is a hollow achievement."
Salvatore Quasimodo
"To know oneself is to begin the journey toward enlightenment."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"Memory is a faculty that is improved by exercise and harmed by idleness."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"The greatest courage is to admit one's ignorance."
Francisco de Quevedo
"In the labyrinth of words, the wisest find their way by losing themselves."
Luis de Góngora
"The most profound communication happens in the spaces between words."
Luis de Góngora
"The landscape of loss teaches what no garden of plenty ever could."
Luis de Góngora
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all quests."
Ungaretti
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"Knowledge without compassion is a dangerous thing."
Ungaretti
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"To understand a people, one must first understand their silences."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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"Knowledge without feeling is only half-knowledge."
Eugenio Montale
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"Knowledge is the burden of seeing."
Eugenio Montale
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"Real knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Progress is measured not by speed but by the distance from ignorance."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Francisco de Quevedo
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom."
Francisco de Quevedo
"Nature teaches what no university can fully explain."
Luis de Góngora
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"Knowledge without compassion is empty wisdom."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"To seek knowledge is to expand the boundaries of self."
Garcilaso de la Vega
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing how to use it"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Knowledge without application is useless"
Federigo Tozzi
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"Language fails where experience begins"
Ungaretti
U
"Knowledge is the map; understanding is the territory"
Ungaretti
"To write is to discover what you did not know you knew."
Salvatore Quasimodo
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"The intellectual must learn to live with permanent discomfort."
Eugenio Montale
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"The educated person knows the precise limits of their own knowledge."
Eugenio Montale
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"Sicily teaches us that beneath every surface lies an abyss of complexity."
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa