Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."Jonathan Swift
"The world was to me a secret which I desired to discover."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Progress comes from questioning what we believe to be true."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"To know oneself is to begin the path to wisdom."Eliza Haywood
"The pursuit of knowledge knows no age or station."Eliza Haywood
"Knowledge without heart is mere accumulation of dust."Christina Rossetti
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."Samuel Johnson
"A scholar is a man who has read everything and forgotten nothing; a fool is a man who has read nothing and remembered everything."Samuel Johnson
"Knowledge is a treasure which follows its possessor everywhere."Aphra Behn
"The true method of knowledge is experiment."William Blake
"All that we see is owing to our senses; but to know that there are senses is not owing to the senses."William Blake
"All things exist as they are perceived."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The human heart is a mysterious instrument."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Science and poetry are not enemies but lovers of the same truth."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Knowledge is the foundation upon which all progress is built."Christina Rossetti
"All experience is an arch to build upon"Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."Robert Browning
"The moment one learns English, complications set in."Robert Browning
"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."Knut Hamsun
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."Knut Hamsun
"The most dangerous thing to our mind is not to know what the present day is."Johan Christian Andersen
"Knowledge is a treasure that grows when shared."Johan Christian Andersen
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Knowledge is not the thing itself, but understanding of the thing."Robert Browning
"The true method of knowledge is experiment."William Blake
"To generalize is to be an idiot."William Blake
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."Elizabeth Barrett Browning