Quotes About Knowledge

And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said.

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy's one weakness was your weakness too

If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.

To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.

Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

Books were heavy shit. Next time he offered to move someone, he'd make sure the person was less of an intellectual.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future.

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.

The more you know, the more you know.

The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.

Did I know any useful spells? Why no, I sure didn't. But go on, ask me the Latin name of, like, foxglove. Digitalis purpurea. You're welcome.

We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.

Mostly I'd like to feel a little less, know a little more.

Waters: And mind your p's and q's. Robert: I know my p's and q's, and the whole alphabet for that matter. you've got no need to tell me how to act, mister.

Because that is how we do it—we approach pregnancy like a job, gobbling up everything we can on the subject so that we are experts on every theory. And, as with most jobs, a certain amount of drudgery accrues. I have discovered that, in addition to ensuring mastery of these theories, this strategy to parenting also, unfortunately, results in utter confusion and frustration.

In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

Only the man who knows freedom can define his prison.

We have been most careful in setting the locks of the Prison. No one can break in or out. The Warden will hold the sole Key. Should he die without passing on his knowledge, the Esoterica must be opened. But only by his successor. For these things are forbidden now. —Project report; Martor Sapiens