Quotes About Knowledge

old men have a name for them, but I do not remember exactly. It is something like corns." The young man paused, as if to be told the right word, but when he had no reply, he went on again, being obviously eager to show off his knowledge about arrowheads. "We find these little round things in the old buildings. Often there are many—many—of them in the boxes and drawers.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

I know nothing, Ygritte, he [Jon Snow] thought, and perhaps I never will.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Un lector vive mil vidas antes de morir. Aquel que nunca lee vive solo una.

Why do you read so much?" "I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one

Mi mejor arma está en el cerebro. Mi hermano tiene su espada, el rey Robert tiene su maza, y yo tengo mi mente... Pero una mente necesita de los libros igual que una espada de una piedra de amolar, para conservar el filo. Por eso leo tanto, Jon Nieve.

But the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

En las manos adecuadas, un libro puede ser tan peligroso como una espada.

What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?

Remember who you are, Daenerys, ... The dragons know. Do you? - Quaithe