Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Reason is the philosopher's stone, which transmutes all things."
Molière
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"One does not lightly part with the happiness of ignorance."
Molière
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
Voltaire
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
Voltaire
V
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater his power of knowing what to do."
Voltaire
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"Language is the ultimate human creation."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Words are the shadows of things."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Knowledge without compassion is mere information."
Stéphane Mallarmé
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Charles Baudelaire
"The knowledge of good and evil is the final state of man."
Charles Baudelaire
"The great lesson of life is to know oneself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Charles Baudelaire
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"I swear by nothing. I believe in nothing eternally; but I believe things can be understood."
Denis Diderot
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"The only true wealth is the cultivation of one's mind."
Denis Diderot
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"In the garden of knowledge, there is always another row to plant."
Denis Diderot
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all human endeavors."
Pierre Corneille
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"True knowledge is knowing the limits of one's understanding."
Pierre Corneille
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"One cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrow sphere."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The person who reads only one book is a prisoner."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The best and most important part of every man is his mind."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"A wise man doesn't give the right answers, he possesses the right questions."
Molière
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"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
Molière
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"The man who thinks himself wise is the furthest from wisdom."
Molière
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"The mind that refuses to question is a mind imprisoned."
Jean Racine
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all human endeavors."
Jean Racine
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"The most dangerous ignorance is the ignorance that doesn't know itself."
Jean Racine
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"Precision in language breeds precision in thought."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
Voltaire
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"The human brain is like a knife: it wears away with use."
Voltaire
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"The pursuit of knowledge is endless."
Voltaire