Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The mind is a garden that requires constant cultivation."
Marianne Moore
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"We are blind except we know."
William Carlos Williams
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"The mind is never satisfied with pure abstraction."
William Carlos Williams
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"True knowledge emerges from the collision of opposing truths."
Hart Crane
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"The mind once enlightened cannot become dark."
Amy Lowell
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"Knowledge is the light that dispels darkness."
Amy Lowell
"The moment of awakening is the moment we see the world without the veil of habit."
Wallace Stevens
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"Knowledge of oneself is the foundation of all other knowledge."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Learning never ceases; wisdom is a lifelong pursuit."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Knowledge is power."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Knowledge without action is useless."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Knowledge is the foundation of all good things."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Knowledge without compassion is hollow."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The most important thing is not to stop questioning."
Fannie Hurst
"The greatest thing is to have clarity about one's own limitations."
Marianne Moore
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Marianne Moore
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"Knowledge is gathered through the senses; wisdom is understanding what it means."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The mind knows no sex; therefore education should be equal."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"All experiences are valuable, even the painful ones, for they teach us something."
Amy Lowell
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"Knowledge without compassion is dangerous."
Amy Lowell
"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
Fannie Hurst
"We reason of these things with later reason and we feel them with a later feeling."
Wallace Stevens
"The sun means something to everyone but we must be told the meaning."
Wallace Stevens
"Nothing can be said that has not been said before."
Wallace Stevens
"The way of understanding is an intellectual thing."
Wallace Stevens
"In the thinking of the body the intelligence is the body."
Wallace Stevens
"The intellect is the instrument of survival."
Wallace Stevens
"The truth is that we do not know until we have said it."
Wallace Stevens
"The greatest thing is to be able to think."
Wallace Stevens
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"Knowledge is not power without the will to use it."
O. Henry