Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Karl Theodor Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers

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To philosophize is and only is to learn how to die.

Karl Theodor Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers

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In philosophy, the questions are more essential than the answers.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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It is not possible to live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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Advocate, my dear companion, for a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law of educating the common people.

Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp

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I never read novels or essays, but biographies. For me, a man's life is more important than his dreams on paper.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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One who truly has a clear conscience will easily be happy and at peace.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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I have sought tranquility everywhere, and I have only found it sitting in a secluded corner, with a book in my hands.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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The humble knowledge of oneself is a safer path to God than the path of science.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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It is better to know after having thought and discussed than to accept knowledge that no one discusses in order to avoid having to think.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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The secret of happiness is to have simple tastes and a complex mind, the problem is that often the mind is simple and the tastes are complex.

Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater

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There is no education if there is no truth to transmit, if everything is more or less true, if everyone has their equally respectable truth and one cannot rationally decide among such diversity.

Jean Baptiste Say

Jean Baptiste Say

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It remains humiliating for a person of wit to know that there is no fool who cannot teach them something.