Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Science is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The curiosity to know things has been given to men as a punishment

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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I reject all violence in the education of a tender soul being trained for honor and freedom.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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Happy is the nation whose history is read with boredom.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The study has been for me the main remedy against the worries of life; not having had a trouble that has not passed after an hour of reading.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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The first task of education is to stir life, but leave it free to develop.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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This is our duty towards the child: to give him a ray of light, and continue on our way.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

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The best teaching is that which uses the fewest words necessary for the task.

José Miguel Monzón

José Miguel Monzón

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Reading is the great provider of arguments, the key for others to listen to you.

Laura Morante

Laura Morante

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They tell me I'm not a woman of this century, because I like slow reading, and I insist that heavy books are the frivolous ones.