Knowledge Quotes

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

31147 quotes

"The capacity to be puzzled is the highest human faculty."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Knowledge without application is like a tree without fruit."
O. Henry
O
"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing when not to use it."
O. Henry
K
"She sought not happiness, but understanding."
Kate Chopin
B
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
Booth Tarkington
U
"One must cultivate knowledge as a farmer cultivates the soil."
Upton Sinclair
J
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
Jack London
J
"In the moment of knowledge, a man is not learning but becoming."
Jack London
J
"Knowledge is power only when it is applied with intention."
Jack London
C
"To truly know yourself, you must understand your connection to society."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
C
"The young must learn to question everything they are taught."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
O
"All of us are pitchers of Diogenes; we are compelled to be asking."
O. Henry
"The most important thing a man can do is to develop his own mind."
Sherwood Anderson
G
"Confusion is just a word we use for an order that we don't yet understand."
Gertrude Stein
G
"I like to read about things I have never experienced."
Gertrude Stein
G
"There is much to say about almost anything."
Gertrude Stein
B
"Memory is the most deceptive of all human faculties."
Booth Tarkington
B
"Learning is a lifelong journey, not a destination."
Booth Tarkington
J
"What one man can invent, another can discover."
Jack London
J
"Knowledge is power, but it is power with a moral responsibility."
Jack London
J
"The power of an idea is its simplicity."
Jack London
U
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
Upton Sinclair
U
"I have taken things into my own hands, and have gathered together all the facts I could."
Upton Sinclair
T
"Knowledge is not something to which we can add new information."
T.S. Eliot
T
"The intellect is impoverished by what it has learnt."
T.S. Eliot
T
"All our knowledge begins with the senses."
T.S. Eliot
"Wonder is the beginning of all knowledge."
Sherwood Anderson
E
"Knowledge is power."
Ezra Pound
E
"One cannot know a country if one does not know its literature."
Ezra Pound
E
"Great facts are new and strange to every generation."
Ezra Pound