Knowledge Quotes

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

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"His mind was a prism."
James Joyce
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"His mind was a prodigy of organisation."
James Joyce
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"Doubt is the mark of an intellectual."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"To understand oneself is to understand all humanity."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Knowledge is the instrument of love."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Understanding is the natural reward of understanding."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Ignorance and innocence are not by any means the same thing."
Anton Chekhov
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"The more one reasons the less he understands."
Anton Chekhov
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"Observation and reflection will help us understand the world."
Anton Chekhov
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"Doctors are just as fallible as other men."
Anton Chekhov
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"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely enclosed and preserved."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Knowledge itself is no guarantee of wisdom."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Knowledge can be carried, but wisdom must be grown."
William Butler Yeats
"The best thing for being sad is to learn something."
Samuel Beckett
"We cannot change what we are not aware of."
Samuel Beckett
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Oscar Wilde
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"If one were to desire the absolute good, one must first understand all evil."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The more we advance in knowledge, the closer we draw to the mysterious."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Knowledge is to be gained only through direct personal experience."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Knowledge without compassion is mere information."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The deepest principles lie beneath the surface of common understanding."
James Joyce
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"Knowledge without understanding is mere accumulation."
James Joyce
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"Ignorance is not bliss; it is oblivion."
Anton Chekhov
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"Every person you meet knows something you don't."
Anton Chekhov
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"Knowledge is power."
George Bernard Shaw
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange them, then you and I will each have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw
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"We cannot know the truth with head alone."
William Butler Yeats
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"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
William Butler Yeats