Quotes About Knowledge

You think you know now, don't you? But you have no idea what it was like.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, "This could change your life." —Helen Exley

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.

Spare me your uninformed teen ideology.

Everything vanishes someday! If love were to arrive, the knowledge that someday it would leave would be devastating. Everyone dies. Life changes us. Experiences and circumstances change us!

because what good would it do when a true understanding of what was in store for them couldn't save them from any of it?

But the destruction of books is a gesture and a threat. It's like saying to the people of those books: You're next.

He met her eyes and said, 'I mean—some things we've learnt might not make any kind of sense according to what we're used to seeing as sense, but they might work with the bits and pieces of knowledge we have.

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are.

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?

I studied because I wanted to know, not because I wanted the world to know I knew.

You could learn that too in books, it's said. I got a heap of books to read and ne'er a one have I read yet but two or maybe three. You could never read all the books in the world, I reckon, if you read all your days until you're old.' 'I don't aim to get old. I wouldn't. Grow up is all I aim.

Hazel was old, but with children still little: she had an exhausted air of experience, someone who thought a lot of things but actually knew very few.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say...The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.

Read, listen, and learn constantly, but always sift what you learn through the strainer of your own personal beliefs and parenting philosophy.

The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.