Knowledge Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy

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Literature is a strange machine that devours, that absorbs all the pleasures, all the events of life. Writers are vampires.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The human mind is incapable of inventing new values, not even a new primary color.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The best defense against bad literature is a rich experience with good literature; just as to protect oneself from scoundrels, it is much more effective to truly associate with honest people than to distrust everyone as a matter of principle.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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We will not consider any experience we may have, whatever it may be, as miraculous if we maintain a philosophy that excludes the supernatural.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Experience is a fierce teacher, but it's clear that it makes you learn.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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At least once a year, everyone is a genius.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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On education, I can only say that it is the most important issue in which we, as a nation, must get involved.

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

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Where everyone thinks alike, no one thinks much.

David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

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You can't feed the hungry with statistics.

John Locke

John Locke

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The notion that we acquire through the senses of external things, although not as certain as our intuitive knowledge, deserves the name of knowledge.