Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"The Mind cannot stretch too wide for the expanding Soul."Emily Dickinson
"The Brain is wider than the Universe."Emily Dickinson
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness."Henry James
"The desire for knowledge is in us an instinct."Henry James
"The intellectual is a luxury."Henry James
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."Mark Twain
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."Mark Twain
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it."Mark Twain
"We are not going to be willing to take on the burden of thought."Herman Melville
"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."Herman Melville
"The secret of our progress is our ability to doubt what everybody knows."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Knowledge without compassion is barbarism."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Knowledge is a burden that isolates the learned."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is freedom."Romain Rolland
"Knowledge must be paired with wisdom."Romain Rolland
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."Anatole France
"Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not live."Anatole France
"A great reader is a great user of his own mind."Anatole France
"A person who refuses to do arithmetic is a person who refuses to think."Anatole France
"The intellectual life without moral foundation is merely clever emptiness."François Mauriac
"The pursuit of knowledge without wisdom creates dangerous fools."François Mauriac
"The person who stops learning has begun to decline."François Mauriac
"Observation is our mother, the source of all knowledge"Henry James
"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a rudder"Henry James
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity."Marcel Proust
"True wisdom comes from understanding our own ignorance."Marcel Proust
"There is in every man a province which he has never explored."André Gide
"To discover a hidden truth is to discover a new island of land."André Gide
"Knowledge is the understanding of principles."André Gide