Quotes About Knowledge

Which is better? Who can say? Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I meant by "their happiness" is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

My mother was afraid of the books I wrote, afraid of what she would discover if she read them.

? ??i có nh?ng chuy?n khi c?n bi?t thì ta không bi?t không hi?u, khi bi?t ???c, hi?u ???c thì ?ã ch?ng còn ?? làm gì n?a. Tuy th? bi?t ???c thì v?n h?n là không...

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.

religious illiteracy is a luxury they can no longer afford. This is a new idea for them—that illiteracy might be a problem in religion as well as English—or that a religion class might have life applications beyond going to church.

The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.

Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.

Larentia, despite her extensive reading, was very ignorant about love

Real intelligence is like a river; the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation.

The brain] is just a landscape...We're Lewis and Clark. We have no idea what's going on in most of that terrain. It's wilderness, I'm telling you. -Dr. David Sutton

The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

The greater your integrity, the more the many gates of knowledge and the real truths of existence will be revealed.

People do seem to be ashamed of admitting that they read poetry,' said Jane, 'unless they have a degree in English—it is permissible then.