Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The person of clear head sees all the relations of things."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Language is the treasury of human thought."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Knowledge is as food, and needs no less her timely ripeness reaching; what improves me must be my diet."
John Milton
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"Taste this, and be henceforth among the blessed."
John Milton
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"It is useful to pretend that you don't know things of which it is well you should be ignorant."
Ovid
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind."
Ovid
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"Knowledge is power, but character is destiny."
Ovid
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"Riches of the mind are the truest riches."
Virgil
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"The more we know, the more we understand how little we know."
Virgil
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
Virgil
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"Knowledge is power; ignorance is weakness."
Virgil
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"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man."
Homer
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"The mind that is content to accept what it has already learned will cease to develop."
Dante Alighieri
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"The mind is a torch that illuminates all things."
Dante Alighieri
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling."
Dante Alighieri
"Knowledge is the inheritance of all who seek it earnestly."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The remedy for ignorance is not merely learning, but understanding."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"To know oneself is the beginning of all true knowledge."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Life without knowledge is like death itself."
Ovid
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"To know them, that is to know myself."
John Milton
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"He who understands himself knows others."
John Milton
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"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous to possess."
John Milton
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"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly revered what is unknowable."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"All our knowledge originates in the senses."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"To the ignorant man every educated person seems to be a magician."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."
Virgil
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"To question is to begin the journey toward truth."
Virgil
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Homer
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
Homer
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"To understand anything is to understand by means of love"
Dante Alighieri