Knowledge Quotes

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

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"One cannot discriminate without knowledge."
Ezra Pound
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"To know a thing one must know its limits."
Ezra Pound
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"To be master of any branch of knowledge, one must know that branch alone."
Ezra Pound
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"What is the difference between one word and another word? There is a difference."
Gertrude Stein
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"Knowledge is a thing that one knows."
Gertrude Stein
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"Knowledge without action is mere sterility."
Upton Sinclair
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"If you wish to change the world, you must first understand it."
Upton Sinclair
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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Booth Tarkington
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
Robert Frost
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"Knowing the way is different from walking the way."
Robert Frost
"I learned to speak all about wind and how it comes and where it goes."
Carl Sandburg
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"Knowledge is increased by experience and reflection."
T.S. Eliot
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"To arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance."
T.S. Eliot
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"Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing."
T.S. Eliot
"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Sherwood Anderson
"The mind is our greatest instrument."
Sherwood Anderson
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"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."
Ezra Pound
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"I could spend the rest of my life reading just to acquire the history that is already in existence."
Ezra Pound
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"A translation is not an explanation."
Ezra Pound
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"Language shapes thought as thought shapes language."
Ezra Pound
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"To be alive is to be constantly learning."
Ezra Pound
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"The way to understand the world is to understand yourself first."
Booth Tarkington
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"I have devoted thirty years to the study of the social evil, and I know it by heart."
Upton Sinclair
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"The most important thing is to keep learning."
Robert Frost
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of learning is wonderful."
Robert Frost
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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out more and more in the constantly impressed on you in increasing abundance more and more of knowing that, the thing that you are is always coming to be a new thing."
Gertrude Stein
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"What is the answer? When you know the answer you forget the question."
Gertrude Stein
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"The way to know about anything is to know about the history of it."
Gertrude Stein
"There is always a Somebody who did it Before."
Carl Sandburg
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Carl Sandburg