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