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