Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Curiosity is one of the very permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Victor Hugo
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Gustave Flaubert
"The mind is like a river, constantly flowing; the written word is like a dam."
Gustave Flaubert
"Language is the treasury of thought."
Gustave Flaubert
"Knowledge without application is merely vanity."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Alexandre Dumas
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"The pursuit of knowledge never ends for those who truly seek it."
Alexandre Dumas
"Ignorance has certain charms for the thoughtless."
Mary Shelley
"The pleasures of study were supreme to him."
Mary Shelley
"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of truth."
Mary Shelley
"To understand society, one must observe it without judgment."
Émile Zola
"The quest for knowledge never truly ends."
Émile Zola
"Knowledge without compassion becomes tyranny."
Émile Zola
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"Every department of knowledge is that food and support of our being"
John Keats
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"The grand march of intellect"
John Keats
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"The greatest knowledge anyone can have is knowledge of themselves."
Charles Dickens
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"The pursuit of knowledge is a noble endeavor."
Charles Dickens
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"To be ambitious and yet ignorant is to court disaster."
Honoré de Balzac
"Meager knowledge produces presumption rather than learning."
William Wordsworth
"Knowledge itself is power."
William Wordsworth
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Victor Hugo
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"Every person who dies is a library that burns."
Victor Hugo
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"All knowledge begins with wonder."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Knowledge is power."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."
Mary Shelley
"Knowledge is a burden as well as a gift."
Mary Shelley
"Knowledge without compassion is mere information."
Mary Shelley
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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Knowledge without humility breeds arrogance; humility without knowledge breeds stagnation."
Alexandre Dumas
"Do not read as children do to amuse themselves, nor as the ambitious do to instruct themselves. No, read in order to live."
Gustave Flaubert