Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Language shapes thought as much as thought shapes language."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Language is the only tool we have to bridge the gap between souls."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Language is the mirror of the mind."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Knowledge increases sorrow rather than diminishing it."
Nikolai Gogol
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"How can I explain to you what I have come to know"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"To a man who cannot read, his newspaper is his contact with the world"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Wisdom is not found in books alone, but in the hearts of those who live with intention."
Maxim Gorky
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"A person who stops learning has stopped living in the fullest sense."
Maxim Gorky
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"Knowledge without application is merely information."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Knowledge multiplies when shared with genuine seekers."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Knowledge without compassion is hollow."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Knowledge without virtue is a weapon in the hands of a fool."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The mind seeks knowledge; the heart seeks meaning."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"A man without knowledge is like a house without a foundation."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
Anton Chekhov
"The mind abhors a vacuum."
Samuel Beckett
"To remain unknowing is not to remain innocent."
Samuel Beckett
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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a human convenience."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Knowledge without wisdom is merely accumulation."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"True wisdom lies in knowing what you do not know."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The mind is a garden that must be carefully cultivated."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The pursuit of knowledge is a lifelong journey."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To question is to begin to understand."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Knowledge is only the first step toward wisdom."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Knowledge without compassion is tyranny."
Ivan Turgenev
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"To know oneself is to recognize one's capacity for both greatness and ruin."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Knowledge without application is merely intellectual vanity."
Mikhail Lermontov
"I have had an experience... I shall never know what it was."
Samuel Beckett