Quotes About Knowledge

It is plain that you move through the world by means of questions." "Yes," I said. "I do move through the world by means of questions and too often I've asked those questions in utter silence, or long centuries ago of people who gave me answers that were fragments which I had to piece together as though they were bits of old papyri. I hunger for knowledge. I hunger for what you mean to say to me.

No knowledge can defeat him, tempered by fire and time, he is too strong for the horrors of technology or the spells of science.

I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

I played the teacher with great earnestness and generosity, and something of pure self-indulgence. Was it for Lestat or me that I wanted him to know everything? I don't know. But those were splendid hours for me, I know that much.

Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it

and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

We must have the courage to embrace the beauty of science in the name of the Lord.

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

la scienza discende dalla poesia, perché la metafora è alla base di ogni descrizione scientifica. Solo

que sólo podía haber aprendido del mismo Marius. ¿Y dónde estaba Marius

The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.

What am I, child? Sometimes I think I know not. And sometimes I think I know only too well. Study in my absence. Waste nothing. And I'll be back to you before you know the hour. And then we'll speak of Blood Kisses and secrets and meantime tell no one that you belong to me.

Was it the moment in which I knew my soul most completely, the moment in which I acknowledge that this would be a child of my power, my immortality, a pupil of all I knew?

I devour it and then I lose it and sometims I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but th knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

The mysterious he was no mystery whatsoever to me.

I know history, I read it as others read their Bibles, and I will not be satisfied until I have unearthed all stories that are written and knowable, and cracked the codes of all cultures that have left me any tantalizing evidence that I might pry loose from earth or stone or papyrus or clay.

I wanted nights to memorize this painting. I wanted at once to listen at the portals of scholars who could tell me what it was about, for I couldn't possibly decipher it! I need knowledge for this. And more than anything, its sheer beauty spoke to my soul.

Seperti jiwaku yang sederhana,' bisik Khayman. 'Kau tersesat dalam semua ini karena kau terlalu mengenal medan. Dan seberapa pun jauhnya kau berjalan, kau akan kembali lagi ke pegunungan yang sama, ke bukit yang sama.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ? Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

Ah, Stefan, give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you perhaps give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

All I taught him of art, of history, of beauty, of civilization-all this was meaningless to him.

What tribe on earth has not had elders? How much of our art and our knowledge comes from those who've lived into old age? You sound like Lestat when you say such things, speaking of his Savage Garden. The world has never seemed a hopelessly savage place to me.