Quotes About Knowledge

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

Once scientists were universally revered as exemplars of independent truth seeking, of knowledge for its own sake, but in recent years they have been accused of fraud, misrepresenting their findings, and other forms of cheating reflective of a highly competitive, market-oriented culture.

me if you knew something, but you couldn't

More militerry, less skools.

Much of life, he said to me, depends on our being ignorant of reality. If we understood reality, we would never go on.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

Sometimes you don't have enough money to hire a real science teacher. Sometimes you have an old real science teacher who retires or quits and leaves you without a replacement. And if you don't have a real science teacher, then you pick one of the other teachers and make him the science teacher. And that's why small-town kids sometimes don't know the truth about petrified wood.

I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

Okay, now you're officially a freak," I said. "Yes, it's a small library. It's a tiny one. But if you read one of these books a day, it would still take you almost ten years to finish." "What's your point?" "The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so more you need to learn.

And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.

He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?

Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

The world even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

She endured a contentious and passionate relationship with this library. The huge number of books confirmed how much magic she'd been denied for most of her life, and now she hungrily wanted to read every book on every shelf. An impossible task, to be sure, Herculean in its exaggeration, but Corliss wanted to read herself to death. She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. She

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody to read it, does it make a sound?

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.