Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Apollo, the god of medicine, used to send diseases. In the beginning, the two professions were one, and it remains so.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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Personally, I don't trust literature that soothes people's conscience.

Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi

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I read the books that were supposed to explain the world to me, as if the world could be explained in books.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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Poetry is the echo of the universe's melody in the hearts of humans.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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There is only one story: The story of man. All national stories are nothing more than chapters of the larger one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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A sharp understanding without greatness punctures everything, but moves nothing.

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

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Teaching has become very complicated, and one no longer knew what to teach, how to teach, or whom to teach.

George Travelyan

George Travelyan

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Education has managed to make people learn to read, but it is unable to point out what is worth reading.

Elsa Triolet

Elsa Triolet

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The reader can be considered the main character of the novel, on equal footing with the author; without them, nothing is accomplished.

Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba

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Reading is pleasure, knowledge, emotion, alienation.