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
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"Knowledge without wisdom is a burden."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
V
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"The pages of a dictionary hold all the stories the world contains."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"Language is the greatest invention of man."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."
Vladimir Nabokov
A
"The most dangerous poison is the belief that you know everything."
August Strindberg
A
"The mind that opens to new ideas never closes back."
August Strindberg
A
"Culture is the weapon of the enlightened against the ignorant."
August Strindberg
S
"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
S
"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
H
"The masses will never understand progress."
Henrik Ibsen
H
"The mind is the greatest frontier of human exploration."
Henrik Ibsen
B
"Knowledge gained at the cost of all natural sensation is sterile knowledge."
Boris Pasternak
B
"The greatest discoveries are often made by those who were lost."
Boris Pasternak
A
"Knowledge without conscience is the most dangerous force in the world."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A
"The mind that refuses to doubt is a mind that refuses to grow."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A
"The night teaches lessons that daylight cannot reveal."
Anna Akhmatova
"The mind is the only infinite resource."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
M
"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is its application."
Maxim Gorky
M
"Knowledge without action is empty."
Maxim Gorky
V
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"Knowing a word is not the same as understanding it."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"Words are the only things that matter; everything else is just arrangement."
Vladimir Nabokov
V
"To understand a butterfly, you must become one momentarily."
Vladimir Nabokov
A
"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
H
"The most dangerous poison is the belief that you have already found the truth."
Henrik Ibsen
H
"Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous possession."
Henrik Ibsen