Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge without application is merely entertainment for the mind."
Herman Melville
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"A man's heart is a depository of a thousand secrets."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Aptitude found in the minds of all Mankind buried in the brevity of life."
Edgar Allan Poe
"What is the hardest task in the world? To think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no greater teacher than experience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no teacher like resistance."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The brain is wider than the sky."
Emily Dickinson
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"The brain within its groove runs evenly and true."
Emily Dickinson
"Knowledge is power."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete."
Henry James
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"The power to guess the unseen from the seen is what we call experience."
Henry James
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"The greatest wisdom is knowing what we do not know."
François Mauriac
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"Knowledge without compassion is empty."
François Mauriac
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it."
Mark Twain
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
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"Knowledge without love is power without purpose."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Knowledge should always be tempered with humility."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"We are not purely ourselves. Our thoughts belong partly to humanity at large."
Herman Melville
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Herman Melville
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"The mind, once enlightened, cannot remain confined."
Herman Melville
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"Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
Anatole France
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"The finest of all pleasures is that of learning."
Anatole France
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"The sum of knowledge is never contained in any one book."
Anatole France
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"Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections."
Anatole France
"Knowledge is the burden we carry pretending it is a gift."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Knowledge without compassion becomes a weapon."
François Mauriac
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"The brain is wider than the sky, for you can fit the sky inside it, but the brain itself cannot fit inside the sky."
Emily Dickinson
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"I found the phrase to every thought I ever had, but one, and that defines me."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Brain within its Groove runs evenly and true."
Emily Dickinson