Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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Train yourself instead of waiting to be trained and shaped.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

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The most important activity that a human being can achieve is to learn to understand, because to understand is to be free.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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By the thickness of the dust in the books of a public library, the culture of a people can be measured.

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne

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Science can be learned by heart, but wisdom cannot.

E. W. Stevens

E. W. Stevens

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Experience is generally attributed to people of a certain age, and what's worse, they attribute it to themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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My memory is magnificent for forgetting.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The important thing is not to arrive but to go.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I always carry two books in my pocket, one to read and the other to write in.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Most people are like pins: their heads are not the most important thing.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.