Quotes About Knowledge

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.

Stacy wasn't certain; she'd never bothered to pay attention to details like that, and was always regretting it, the half knowing, which felt worse than not knowing at all, the constant sense that she had things partly right, but not right enough to make a difference.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

the average person isn't that smart — and worse, half the population is dumber than that average person.

Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." — Douglas Adams

Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.

Either we don't read the things we claim we do, or we read them with incompetence, preventing ideas in the book from changing our behavior.

An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.

A wise person should be learning more all the time, which will require him to develop new ideas and opinions, even if they contradict ones he had in the past.

Just as there is an advice paradox, there is a data paradox: no matter how much data you have, you still depend on your intuition for deciding how to interpret and then apply the data.

information is a form of garbage and yet we're oddly addicted to cramming more of it in our brains.

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

Experience benefits only those who take the time to learn from it.

Wow, so much to learn!" said Volant the eagle. "Fish-eating bats, pale bats, bats with little ears, bats with long noses, bats with noses that look like leaves… Next thing you know, you're going to tell me there are bats that drink blood like vampires!" "There are those, indeed, as well," said Sully the Leaf-nosed bat.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it's about time to open a snack bar.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.

The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.

The lessons in this book are not academic. They are based on my personal experiences.

the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER