Knowledge Quotes

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

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"I want to work in revelations, not to tell people anything to believe, but to show them that the thing that already know very well are much stranger than what they think they know."
Jack Kerouac
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"The best teacher is experience and not philosophical speculation."
Jack Kerouac
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"Words are things, and if you don't know the word, you don't know the thing."
Jack Kerouac
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question"
e.e. cummings
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination"
e.e. cummings
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"Knowledge is a burden when divorced from compassion."
Hart Crane
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Hart Crane
"When you get to my age, you realize you've made mistakes and the only thing you can do is study the mistakes so you don't make them again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"True intelligence is the ability to see the beauty in different perspectives."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"One must pay attention to the immediate environment—therein lies all truth."
William Carlos Williams
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"The mind grows through engagement with difficult ideas and strange beauty."
William Carlos Williams
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"The best mind is the empty mind that can receive everything"
Allen Ginsberg
"What we see in the mind is all that we see."
Wallace Stevens
"The tongue is an eye."
Wallace Stevens
"The mind is smaller than the eye."
Wallace Stevens
"The mind is the great poem of winter."
Wallace Stevens
"Thought is an illness in the flesh."
Wallace Stevens
"The words of the world are the life of the world."
Wallace Stevens
"The mind is the result of the activity of life."
Wallace Stevens
"The pure mind is everything."
Wallace Stevens
"All knowledge is the product of desire."
Wallace Stevens
"The light of the mind illuminates all things."
Wallace Stevens
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"I'm beginning to think that nothing can be known except through memory and imagination."
Jack Kerouac
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"I believe that everyone has something valuable to teach us."
Jack Kerouac
"The mind is an enchanting thing."
Marianne Moore
"Every reflection has the power to transform."
Marianne Moore
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"Knowledge without compassion becomes a weapon."
Hart Crane
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"Knowledge pursued without humility becomes arrogance."
Hart Crane
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"Knowledge is power."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Hilda Doolittle