Knowledge Quotes

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

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"To understand oneself is the beginning of wisdom."
Kate Chopin
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is transcendence."
Kate Chopin
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"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Knowledge is power, and power is knowledge."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Knowledge without compassion breeds arrogance."
Fannie Hurst
"Knowledge is burden and gift intertwined."
Fannie Hurst
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"Knowledge without application is like a book never read."
Amy Lowell
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"Knowledge without wisdom is like wealth without purpose."
O. Henry
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Jack London
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"We learn more from our limitations than from our freedoms."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"To think is not to know. To know is to have tested thought against life and found it true."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"We inherit not just genes but the accumulated wisdom of all human experience."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Wonder is not precisely knowing and not precisely not knowing."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Knowledge without compassion is merely the accumulation of words."
Kate Chopin
"The greatest discoveries begin with a question."
Fannie Hurst
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"I spent months in Chicago and studying the situation."
Upton Sinclair
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"Knowledge is power, but only if it is used wisely."
Upton Sinclair
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"Knowledge without application is merely philosophy."
O. Henry
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"The mind is the greatest frontier of human exploration."
O. Henry
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"Knowledge without application is merely philosophy."
Jack London
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of immortality."
Jack London
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"The woman who questions is the woman who grows."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous possession."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The range of human knowledge is incomprehensibly vast, but the individual human mind is limited."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The human mind expanded by new knowledge never returns to its original dimensions."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"A person of limited knowledge is like a nation with closed borders."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The mind, when it wanders, discovers truths that diligence cannot find."
Booth Tarkington
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"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous thing."
Booth Tarkington
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"The pursuit of knowledge is humanity's highest calling and greatest responsibility."
Upton Sinclair
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"Knowledge without compassion is merely information."
Mary Wilkins Freeman