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 imagination is sterile."Denis Diderot
"The beginning of wisdom is the willingness to unlearn."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The greatest discoveries come from questioning authority."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I wish I could know everything in the world, I wish I could understand everything."André Gide
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."André Gide
"We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the world around us."André Gide
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."Voltaire
"The more you know, the less you're sure of."Voltaire
"We are drowning in information, but starving for wisdom."Voltaire
"To understand oneself is to understand the world."Albert Camus
"The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The love of study is the most powerful means of supporting us in all our misfortunes."Montesquieu
"The expansion of knowledge brings the expansion of responsibility."Montesquieu
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind."Denis Diderot
"There is nothing more futile than theorizing without experience."Denis Diderot
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of happiness."Denis Diderot
"It is in the knowledge that life is lived that meaning is found."Simone de Beauvoir
"Knowledge without action is merely consolation."Simone de Beauvoir
"To understand oneself is to understand the human condition."Simone de Beauvoir
"The body is weak and short-lived, the mind is vigorous and eternal."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Knowledge without application is mere decoration."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Knowledge is the treasure of the wise."Pierre Corneille
"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."Jean Racine
"The pursuit of knowledge has no end."Jean Racine
"Knowledge without application is sterile."Jean Racine
"Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and reduce those men to slavery."Molière
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."Molière