Quotes About Knowledge

That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

...the University of Arizona, a very fine school, well liked and spoken of by everybody that knows about it.

...his gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet, — or seem likely to do it in this state of existence, — a few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

There is no thief worse than a bad book.

Somewhere at a summer conference, I dropped several books casually on the ground and kicked them out of the way. A German student picked up the books, dusted them off gently. He said how he had worked for years to buy a few books. A book was his blood, and he bled when he saw it mishandled.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Books are embalmed minds.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...

I've been saving books for all these years, and they've been saving me for my entire life.

A health to books!... Your goblets all refill; When all things mortal are decayed May books be with us still!

The younger brother hath the more wit.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Clutch some hope from fear — read banned books.

What's in the raging flame of banned books burning? Knowledge, truth, learning, courage, freedom, yearning.

They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.

Don't burn books — let them set young minds on fire.

Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.

Books light the world — to burn them extinguishes the flame.

Books that get burned are written by authors whose souls are on fire with passion or knowledge.

To burn one book is to burn the entire library.