Quotes About Knowledge

Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.

Which do you think is an index of the more advanced civilization, knowing where the soap comes from, or not knowing?

To know and not act is to not know.

Sometime it's more difficult to know the question than to find an answer.

Wisdom comes with age and experience.

Of the many attributes that seem to mark America's founders as residents of a foreign time and place, probably none is more astonishing today than their unapologetic confidence in the power of books—and in particular the books of the philosophers. At

One is not born wise; one becomes it.

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

One of the many drawbacks of this I teach what I am approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.

Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.

Stuart's a wizard with those kinds of things, she said. What kinds of things? Oh, he can find anything online. Debbie was obviously one of those parents who still hadn't quite grasped that using the Internet was not exactly wizardry, and that we could all find anything online. I didn't say this, because you don't want people to feel that they've missed something really obvious, even when they have.

Sherlock said, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

You don't get things past librarians.

Never question the girl who works in the library -Eric

We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not.

How are you so smart?" Stevie asked. "I read a lot," Janelle said, smiling. She unzipped the front of her bag, shoved her pass inside and secured the lanyard to a clip, and zipped the bag back up again. Janelle did everything completely, even putting her pass away. "And I'm just amazing.

Three: Izzy made it sound like Stevie was Wikipedia Holmes, a walking, talking, deducing database that ate true crime and spat out justice.

You could be naked, you could scream and hang out on the roof, but you do not mess with the place with the books.

the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.

Luckily, she knew a genius.

The truth or falsehood of all of man's conclusions, inferences, thought and knowledge rests on the truth or falsehood of his definitions.

We cannot stop now, even though it frightens us that we are alone in our knowledge.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.