Quotes About Knowledge

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence

That's the curse of librarianship. If your library is of any quality at all, then its collection is going to outpace your manpower.

Ah, yes, librarianship,' said Ms Winstanley. 'It's not for the faint hearted.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!

We try to teach our students how to think... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves...

Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven't been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.

The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.

They may not know it," DiNardo said, his smile becoming genuine, "but even the most stubborn atheist among them is working to uncover God's ways.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

The entirety of existence was a text waiting to be read.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

How does anyone ever know anything—the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!