Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"The body is a text written by society and history."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Language imprisons us even as it liberates us."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Language is the prison of thought; it also the only way to escape."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Knowledge gained without suffering is soon forgotten."Federigo Tozzi
"Knowledge is the burden of consciousness."Federigo Tozzi
"The mind that questions everything understands nothing."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"If understanding is impossible, then we must at least strive to understand why understanding is impossible."Primo Levi
"The mind is a landscape we spend our entire lives mapping."Elsa Morante
"Knowledge without compassion is merely cold calculation."Elio Vittorini
"The greatest discoveries often come from those who dared to question."Elio Vittorini
"Knowledge is power only when applied."Dino Buzzati
"Every word carries within it a history of power and domination."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"To know the world, one must construct it."Cesare Pavese
"Language is a tool for understanding the world."Primo Levi
"The written word carries memory across generations."Primo Levi
"The pursuit of knowledge is an act of freedom."Primo Levi
"The truest test of knowledge is doubt."Federigo Tozzi
"Knowledge without compassion is merely information."Federigo Tozzi
"Knowledge is a burden that only the wise can bear."Italo Svevo
"Knowledge is power only when applied."Italo Svevo
"The knowledge of living is not found in books."Cesare Pavese
"A true intellectual is one who feels the pain of society in his own flesh."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"We live in an age of information but a poverty of wisdom."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"We are shaped by what we read as much as by what we experience."Elio Vittorini
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous; wisdom without knowledge is incomplete."Elio Vittorini
"Language is the instrument of all knowledge and thought."Primo Levi
"Knowledge without compassion is merely an accumulation of facts."Dino Buzzati
"To understand ourselves, we must first understand our illness."Italo Svevo
"Knowledge without compassion is merely tyranny disguised as wisdom."Elsa Morante
"A sign is anything which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity."Umberto Eco