CURATED COLLECTION

The Pursuit of Knowledge

The best argument for learning is that it changes the shape of everything else you see.

50 quotes found

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I want to taste, smell, see, hear, and feel everything. I want to know everything.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The veils of ignorance obscure the truth. Seek knowledge to lift them and see.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The intellect is perfected through contemplation and the pursuit of knowledge.

—Ibn RushdPhilosopher & Physician

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Imagination is an important tool in the pursuit of knowledge and discovery.

—Ibn SinaPolymath

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought with ardor and attended with diligence.

—Abigail AdamsWriter & President

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

—Carl SaganAstronomer & Author

Post-War ERA • North America

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

—Sigmund FreudNeurologist & Psychoanalyst

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work.

—Stephen HawkingTheoretical Physicist

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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Knowledge is a treasure; its key is asking, its guard is patience.

—Al-BiruniPolymath

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

—Anton ChekhovWriter & Playwright

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Open your mind, for what you hear is not what you believe.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Learning is exceedingly prized by all men of Timbuktu, and they are men of great gravity.

—Leo AfricanusDiplomat & Author

Renaissance ERA • North Africa

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He said to me: 'My knowledge is beyond all knowledge, and My vision beyond all vision.'

—Al-NiffariMystic

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Consider your origin: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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We are prisoners of custom and superstition. Let us break free, sisters, with the lamp of knowledge.

—Begum RokeyaFeminist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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The more I see, the less I know for sure.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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