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