Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Stories allow us to transmit knowledge, values, and identity."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Knowledge is power when it's shared."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Knowledge is a function of being."
T.S. Eliot
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"One cannot value Dante, or the language in which Dante wrote, without some understanding of the European culture into which he was born."
T.S. Eliot
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"All knowledge is in poetry, all science is in poetry."
T.S. Eliot
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"We know more than we can tell."
T.S. Eliot
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"Knowledge is understanding something completely."
Ezra Pound
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"The individual cannot abandon his effort to understand things for himself."
Ezra Pound
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"The human mind has a natural limit to what it can process."
Ezra Pound
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"The pursuit of knowledge requires the surrender of certainty."
Ezra Pound
"Knowledge is power."
Maya Angelou
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"You must be willing to question everything."
Alice Walker
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"In order to successfully live our lives, we must truly come to terms with who we are."
Alice Walker
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"We must teach young people to think critically, not just comply."
Toni Cade Bambara
"I have found more truth in a laborer's hands than in a scholar's books."
Carl Sandburg
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein
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"What is writing but a way of looking at things."
Gertrude Stein
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"All knowledge is here and nowhere else."
T.S. Eliot
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"Language shapes how we understand the world."
T.S. Eliot
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"Knowledge is not power; it is responsibility."
T.S. Eliot
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"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life."
Ezra Pound
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"Language is the soul of intellect."
Ezra Pound
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"The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open."
Ezra Pound
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"Knowledge without action is merely information."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"We must be willing to be transformed by what we learn."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Know yourself so deeply that others cannot define you."
Alice Walker
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"Knowledge without compassion becomes cruelty."
Alice Walker
"Knowledge is the foundation of wisdom."
Carl Sandburg
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"If you don't know your history, you don't know anything."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous."
Robert Frost