Quotes About Knowledge

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Sophie was neither a virgin nor a prude, despite what people might otherwise assume about librarians. On the contrary, if people knew just how well-read she was on the subject of sex, they would likely be shocked. Especially Jake.

You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

A person who studies the universe will enlarge his mind and hatred will become picayune, stupid, impossible. Did you enjoy the book we sent to you?" "I tore it up," Tom said, and not trying to hide his shame, looked straight at Arthur.

I wanted to say that lots of things weren't in the libraries of the wise, including plate tectonics, molecular biology and the complete works of J. K. Rowling, but she'd probably say that I was missing the point.

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

You shouldn't make jokes about these things," she said. "Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though,

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

You don't actually know enough about me to insult me properly.

Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though," I said.

This book is dedicated to all librarians everywhere—for they are the true keepers of the secret flame and not to be trifled with.

Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.

It's not the book that's important,' I said. 'It's the reading

Inside, it was very dark but I am, if not exactly a master, then definitely an apprentice in the secret arts. And as such I laugh in the face of darkness.