Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Questions are more valuable than easy answers."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Knowledge without compassion is merely empty wisdom."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Knowledge is power, but only when applied with wisdom."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Knowledge is the light that dispels darkness."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Knowledge in fragments is not power but confusion."
Robert Browning
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"The present age is essentially one of understanding, and therefore to a particularly high degree a reflective age."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men."
Søren Kierkegaard
"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Knowledge multiplies when shared."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
August Strindberg
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"Knowledge without compassion is merely information."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"What is the higher knowledge, except to know yourself and your world?"
Henrik Ibsen
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"Knowledge without compassion becomes mere cleverness."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Knowledge hoarded becomes stagnant; shared it multiplies."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"In our country we have nothing, but we know nothing and we want to know nothing."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Knowledge is a burden that we must all bear."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"To know the names of things is to know things themselves."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have learned to love the questions more than the answers."
Anna Akhmatova
"The mind grows by what it feeds upon"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Conflict is the gadfly of thought, and the beginning of inquiry."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Each generation must anew discover for itself that which the previous generation believed."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The more you understand, the more you realize how little you understand."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"In the age of information, wisdom has become the rarest commodity."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Knowledge is dangerous when you don't know what you don't know."
August Strindberg
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"The more we know, the more we realize how little we know."
August Strindberg
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"To know oneself is to begin the journey of becoming who we are meant to be."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"The mind that never doubts is a mind that has stopped growing."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Our greatest strength lies in our willingness to question everything."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Knowledge without wisdom is like a weapon in the hands of a child."
Henrik Ibsen
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"The most important thing is not to stop asking questions."
Boris Pasternak