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 compassion is a hollow pursuit."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Knowledge without wisdom is a burden."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."Vladimir Nabokov
"The pages of a dictionary hold all the stories the world contains."Vladimir Nabokov
"Language is the greatest invention of man."Vladimir Nabokov
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."Vladimir Nabokov
"The most dangerous poison is the belief that you know everything."August Strindberg
"The mind that opens to new ideas never closes back."August Strindberg
"Culture is the weapon of the enlightened against the ignorant."August Strindberg
"The task is not to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."Selma Lagerlöf
"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a rudder."Selma Lagerlöf
"The light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The moment we stop learning is the moment we begin to die."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The masses will never understand progress."Henrik Ibsen
"The mind is the greatest frontier of human exploration."Henrik Ibsen
"Knowledge gained at the cost of all natural sensation is sterile knowledge."Boris Pasternak
"The greatest discoveries are often made by those who were lost."Boris Pasternak
"Knowledge without conscience is the most dangerous force in the world."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The mind that refuses to doubt is a mind that refuses to grow."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The night teaches lessons that daylight cannot reveal."Anna Akhmatova
"The mind is the only infinite resource."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is its application."Maxim Gorky
"Knowledge without action is empty."Maxim Gorky
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter."Vladimir Nabokov
"Knowing a word is not the same as understanding it."Vladimir Nabokov
"Words are the only things that matter; everything else is just arrangement."Vladimir Nabokov
"To understand a butterfly, you must become one momentarily."Vladimir Nabokov
"The more we learn about the world, and the deeper we search into the nature of things, the more we realize that behind all visible phenomena there is a single unity."August Strindberg
"The most dangerous poison is the belief that you have already found the truth."Henrik Ibsen
"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous possession."Henrik Ibsen