Quotes About Knowledge

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

How many books had she touched? How many had she felt?

Ignoraba que las palabras pudieran pesar tanto.

Los mejores recolectores de palabras eran los que comprendían el verdadero poder de las palabras, los que subían más alto.

Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.

They were all placed on a conveyor belt and run through a rampant machine that gave them a lifetime in ten minutes. Words were fed into them. Time disappeared and they now knew everything they needed to know. They were hypnotized.

I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

Una niña de once años es muchas cosas, pero no tonta.

politics. Later, they read some more in bed, adhering to the tradition of circling the words she didn't know and

Salvas a alguien. Lo matas. ¿Cómo iba a saberlo el hombre?

just because I can't read, doesn't mean I'm stupid - Liesel

A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.

they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of "culture" exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and "workless" world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.

The alphabet (and its extension into typography) made possible the spread of the power that is knowledge, and shattered the bonds of tribal man, thus exploding him into an agglomeration of individuals. Electric writing and speed pour upon him, instantaneously and continuously, the concerns of all other men. He becomes tribal once more. The human family becomes one tribe again.

That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which "made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible.

An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.

When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition.

El hombre que almacena alimentos reaparece incongruentemente como el hombre que almacena información.

And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing to know everything is an acceptable substitute. I pondered this great truth during the two-hour seminar. I was so buoyed up by it that I didn't pay enough attention to snorkeling up little bits of food in order to keep my nausea under control. I sailed right on into my next class, another seminar, confident that I could get through it without losing my lunch.