Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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A lie can never be undone. Not even the truth is sufficient.

Nicolás de Avellaneda

Nicolás de Avellaneda

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When I hear that a man has the habit of reading, I am inclined to think well of him.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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Real intellectual exercise does not consist of following trends, but of facing the difficulties of one's own time.

Richard Bach

Richard Bach

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To learn is to discover what you already know. To act is to demonstrate that you know it. To teach is to remind others that they know as much as you do. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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Science is the aesthetics of intelligence.

Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

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The poet's first task is to unmoor within us a substance that wants to dream.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Some books are tasted, others swallowed, and only a few are chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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He who does not want to think is a fanatic; he who cannot think is an idiot; he who dares not to think is a coward.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is nothing that does more harm to a nation than cunning people passing for intelligent.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The sovereignty of man is hidden in the dimension of his knowledge.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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I would like to live to study, not study to live.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The reading makes the man complete; the conversation, agile, and the writing, precise.