Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Common sense is quite rare among uncommon people."Voltaire
"The body is a language we rarely understand"Arthur Rimbaud
"Knowledge is the light against darkness"Arthur Rimbaud
"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is better."Paul Verlaine
"Knowledge expands the boundaries of understanding."Paul Verlaine
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."Charles Baudelaire
"The mind is a garden that must be carefully tended or it becomes a wasteland."Charles Baudelaire
"Knowledge without experience is like reading about swimming without entering the water."Charles Baudelaire
"Knowledge is power only when coupled with action."Pierre Corneille
"The soul's education never truly concludes."Pierre Corneille
"Knowledge without virtue is a dangerous thing."Jean Racine
"Knowledge pursued without humility becomes arrogance."Jean Racine
"Language is the act of negation."Stéphane Mallarmé
"A man's true dwelling is his library."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Every word is an ancestor of meaning."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Language is both prison and palace."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Language dances around what cannot be said."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Language is the music of thought."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Words are the shadows of reality."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Language fails where desire begins."Stéphane Mallarmé
"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."Molière
"The more we know, the more we realize how little we know."Molière
"The path to wisdom begins with the admission of one's ignorance."Pierre Corneille
"I have invented nothing; I have merely remembered what was always true."Arthur Rimbaud
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom."Paul Verlaine
"Knowledge without wisdom is mere accumulation."Paul Verlaine
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."Voltaire
"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."Voltaire
"Knowledge without action is merely elegant ignorance"Pierre Corneille
"The greatest gift is the ability to see ourselves as others see us."Jean Racine