Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge was power, but power was also knowledge."
Emily Brontë
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"The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid."
William Butler Yeats
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"All knowledge that is not pursued for its own sake is a kind of cowardice."
William Butler Yeats
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Knowledge is power."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde
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"The mind that questions is the mind that grows."
Anne Brontë
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth itself."
Anne Brontë
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"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is freedom."
Emily Brontë
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"Knowledge without compassion is merely the accumulation of empty facts."
Thomas Hardy
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"Ignorance is not bliss; it is just ignorance."
George Eliot
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"Knowledge and understanding are the greatest gifts we can give"
Charles Dickens
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"The pursuit of knowledge is noble and eternal"
Charles Dickens
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"The more we know, the more we discover our ignorance."
Anne Brontë
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"The pursuit of knowledge is never wasted effort."
Anne Brontë
"Knowledge is the eye of desire."
Émile Zola
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Émile Zola
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"Knowledge was a surer and a safer friend than many in this world."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The possibilities of thought training are practically unlimited."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Knowledge without compassion is empty and hollow."
Emily Brontë
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"I have learned more from suffering than from any book or teacher."
Emily Brontë
"Experience is the only teacher."
Gustave Flaubert
"The test of the first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind and still retain the ability to function."
Gustave Flaubert
"The mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
Gustave Flaubert
"A person is wise in proportion to the number of things he knows."
Gustave Flaubert
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"There is much to be said for ignorance in moderation."
George Eliot
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"The thirst for knowledge is the only thirst that never dies."
George Eliot
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"Wonder is the foundation of all knowledge"
Charles Dickens