knowledge Quotes

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:life death knowledge

“the further one travels the less one knows.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

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“You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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