Quotes About Knowledge

Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa.

A book is dead until you read it.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

but as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.

They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world's greatest untapped resource? It was true. All they'd seen, all they'd suffered, all they'd triumphed over – lost to a world in need of wisdom.

You guys are of the belief that everything worth knowing is already on the Internet. There is ten times more information in libraries than on the Web. Probably a thousand times. You two go way beyond Google searches

Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.

it is now clear to me that behind a façade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you're supposed to be spying on.

One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.

I sat up straight. How in the world does a simple Cockney pickpocket know all about 'The Vampyre' and Frankenstein and their connections? Mina's eyes widened, gleaming like marbles in the dim light. I'd actually taken her by surprise. That, my dear Miss Stoker, is a very good question. A very good question.

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

The Declaration [of Independence] is like a map. You trust that it's right but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.

Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.

The loneliness is the worst, because this knowledge is something that cannot be shared, only suffered. Just as well. Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

Get them off the plantation and they learned to read, it was a disease.

Liberty make a body fertile," Georgina said. That, and the knowledge they will not be sold, Cora added.

Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. Nothing left for the world to show you but the latest incarnations of cruelty.

But if he didn't read, he was a slave.

Step back and the world is a classroom if need be.

This slow debate about the rain: it's not about rain at all, but the fragility of what we know. We're all just guessing.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.