Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Of the various instruments invented by man, the most astonishing is the book; all others are extensions of his body... Only the book is an extension of the imagination and memory.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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In Egypt, the libraries were called the treasure of remedies for the soul. Indeed, in them one was cured of ignorance, the most dangerous of diseases and the origin of all others.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Knowledge, if not applied, is worse than ignorance.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Destiny laughs at probabilities.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

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Science does not interest me. It ignores sleep, chance, laughter, emotion, and contradiction, things that are precious to me.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.

Robert Burns

Robert Burns

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The history is a matter of survival. If we didn't have a past, we would be devoid of the imprint that defines our being.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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Indeed, it's nice to see one's own name printed; a book is always a book, even if it contains nothing.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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Experience is the first of the philosophers, but the most painful when we have come to know its science well.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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The same pleasure is a much more severe moralist than all the wisdom of the wise.

José O. Caldas

José O. Caldas

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He was a writer with a great imagination: He imagined that all his books would sell.