Quotes About Knowledge

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them. Three: Books Operate Under Unstable Physicks so Turn out the Lights when You Lock Up.

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a girl. I am a magician! Did you never think, even once, that I loved lipstick and rouge for more than their color alone? I am a student of their lore, and it is arcane and hermetic beyond the dreams of alchemists. Did you never wonder why I gave you so many pots, so many creams, so much perfume?

Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.

She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.

Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.

What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.

I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.

I want to be myself again. I want to be six. I want to stop knowing everything I know.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

no one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.

A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.