Quotes About Knowledge

So many secrets, so many things I didn't know. What else don't I know?

I never know as much when I'm sober as I do when I'm drunk.

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

Girls were like that, though- they had to know things. They had to plan.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned.

In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples!

I am self-educated from genre books.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read.

Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home.

I maybe uneducated and unworldly, but I'm not stupid or unread.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

The point is, that doesn't make any difference." I looked Tamsin straight in the eyes. "No matter how much sympathy I have for you, it won't heal you faster or slower. You're not a victim of cosmic proportions. There are millions of us. That doesn't make your personal struggle less. That just increases your knowledge of pain in this world.

I felt there must be substance below the stuffed-shirt exterior. After all, he was a Lizzie Borden expert…

You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

The BJP lacks the sense of history.

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.