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All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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✓Similar Perspectives

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

— Abu Bakr

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

— e. e. cummings

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

— Edward Tufte

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

— Avicenna

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

— Walter Benjamin

✗Opposing Perspectives

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

— Gordon B. Hinckley