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
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"The body is a language we rarely understand"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Knowledge is the light against darkness"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is better."
Paul Verlaine
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"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
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"Knowledge is power only when coupled with action."
Pierre Corneille
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"The soul's education never truly concludes."
Pierre Corneille
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"Knowledge without virtue is a dangerous thing."
Jean Racine
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"Knowledge pursued without humility becomes arrogance."
Jean Racine
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"Language is the act of negation."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"A man's true dwelling is his library."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Every word is an ancestor of meaning."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Language is both prison and palace."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Language dances around what cannot be said."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Language is the music of thought."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Words are the shadows of reality."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Language fails where desire begins."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."
Molière
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"The more we know, the more we realize how little we know."
Molière
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"The path to wisdom begins with the admission of one's ignorance."
Pierre Corneille
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"I have invented nothing; I have merely remembered what was always true."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom."
Paul Verlaine
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"Knowledge without wisdom is mere accumulation."
Paul Verlaine
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
Voltaire
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"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."
Voltaire
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"Knowledge without action is merely elegant ignorance"
Pierre Corneille
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"The greatest gift is the ability to see ourselves as others see us."
Jean Racine