Quotes About Knowledge

Man vet allt man behöver veta om en person utifrån svaret på frågan: vilken är den bästa bok som du har läst? (s. 97)

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel.

He had spent hours with the man over the last half-dozen years. They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

What's a Forever 21?" Ismay laughs at him. "How do you not know this? Wasn't it ever referenced in one of those YA novels you're always reading?" "Young adult fiction isn't like that.

Bah! Books are for nerds.

what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Mano gyvenimas – šitose knygose. Perskaityk jas ir suprasi, kas guli mano širdyje.

but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

Always with a book and content at home or at the store.

Había pasado muchas horas con aquel hombre durante los últimos seis años. Solo hablaban de libros, pero ¿hay algo en la vida más personal que los libros?

I have thoughts about this. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Someone stole Tamerlane," A.J. says. "What's Tamerlane?" "It's a book. It's a very valuable book.

A place ain't a place without a bookstore.

Aveva trascorso parecchie ore con quell'uomo, negli ultimi sei anni. Avevano discusso sempre e solo di libri, ma cosa, in questa vita, è più personale dei libri?

A place ain't a place without a bookstore

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

A library is infinity under a roof.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.