Quotes About Knowledge

Spencer, you do not need to know any more big words. You're already scary enough to anyone under 50.

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

I've always hated biology who cares how a cell divides, it just does

I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. —A

Sigo aquí, putas. Y lo sé todo. —A.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

I know the stars by their names, Aldebaran, Altair, And I know the path they take Up heaven's broad blue stair. I know secrets of men By the look of their eyes, Their gray thoughts, their strange thoughts Have made me sad and wise. But your eyes are dark to me Though they seem to call and call– I cannot tell if you love me Or do not love me at all. I know many things, But the years come and go, I shall die not knowing The thing I long to know.

The annoying part of wanting to know everything about everything is that it somehow always results in only knowing something about something

She'd also liked being within a wall of books. There, she'd felt as close to safe as she could remember

Straight-faced, Hamon said, "I'm honored to be working alongside someone with such expert woodland knowledge, superior battle skills, and an impressive beard." Ven stroked his beard. "Indeed you are.

What's that?" Ethan asked. "It's a book," Monster said. "I know it's a book. I meant, how's it supposed to help?" "Most answers can be found in books," Monster said solemnly. "As a wise man who wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.