Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the disciplined mind."Flannery O'Connor
"The reason to write is that you understand something more completely by writing about it."Flannery O'Connor
"Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land."Robertson Davies
"A person who never questions is a person who never truly understands."Robertson Davies
"Knowledge is the burden of the truth."Cormac McCarthy
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."Cormac McCarthy
"Knowledge is infinite."Cormac McCarthy
"The way to learn about a place is to walk its streets like a native."Eudora Welty
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous; intelligence without compassion leads to cruelty."Joyce Carol Oates
"Education should cultivate both confidence and doubt; certainty leads to closed minds."Joyce Carol Oates
"The age of the mind is upon us."Margaret Atwood
"Human beings are pattern-recognition animals."Margaret Atwood
"The limited mind can miss the whole point of such a consideration."Harper Lee
"To know yourself is to understand half the world's mysteries."Harper Lee
"All knowledge is of value, even the knowledge of evil"Robertson Davies
"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous thing"Robertson Davies
"Memory is not something that you have. Memory is something that has you."Cormac McCarthy
"The path to wisdom is paved with honest questions."Carson McCullers
"The mind accumulates marvels."Eudora Welty
"Knowledge without wisdom leads to destruction."Joyce Carol Oates
"The greatest obstacles to understanding are our own assumptions."Joyce Carol Oates
"Without libraries, what have we? We have a past without reflection."Harper Lee
"The so-called 'infinite regress' problem just keeps going deeper and deeper."David Foster Wallace
"There are no surprising facts, only surprising perspectives."David Foster Wallace
"The truth about the world is that it has no truth. Only perspectives."Cormac McCarthy
"All the suffering in the world is caused by ignorance."Philip Roth
"The truth is that I read constantly."Philip Roth
"Innocence is not bliss; it's just ignorance."Philip Roth
"We cannot destroy what we do not understand."Carson McCullers
"Intelligence is a gift that comes wrapped up in a responsibility."Flannery O'Connor