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 integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Jonathan Swift
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"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle."
Jonathan Swift
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"Understanding is a pale moon; it gives forth a cold and borrowed light."
Jonathan Swift
"Knowledge, once acquired, cannot be taken from a woman, though much else may be."
Eliza Haywood
"The pursuit of knowledge is the most democratic of all freedoms."
Eliza Haywood
"A mind engaged is a mind alive, regardless of the confines placed around the body."
Eliza Haywood
"Knowledge is a treasure that thieves cannot steal."
Aphra Behn
"Knowledge without application is sterile and purposeless."
Aphra Behn
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Samuel Johnson
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that the mind of man can be expanded infinitely through learning."
Samuel Johnson
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"The world was to me a secret which I desired to discover."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"All that we know is nothing in comparison with that which remains to be discovered."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest of all endeavours."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Progress demands that we question what we believe."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Does the eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the mole?"
William Blake
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"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
William Blake
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"Knowledge is not by deduction, but Immediate by Sense & Vision."
William Blake
"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom."
Christina Rossetti
"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling of mankind."
Christina Rossetti
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"Intellectual beauty works through contemplation and imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Knowledge without application is like seed without soil."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Knowledge is power only when tempered by compassion and humility."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Women are as capable of science and reasoning as men."
Aphra Behn
"The greatest obstacle to knowledge is the illusion of possessing it."
Aphra Behn
"The pursuit of knowledge has no finish line."
Aphra Behn
"Knowledge is the only inheritance that cannot be stolen."
Eliza Haywood
"Experience is the harshest teacher but the most thorough."
Eliza Haywood
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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Jonathan Swift
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectually by the chasing after it than by anything else."
Jonathan Swift
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Jonathan Swift