Quotes About Knowledge

He wonders who decided which books were too dangerous to keep, and who it was that had to hunt down and collect the condemned books, like an executioner, ferrying them to their doom. He wonders if it is his father.

Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing.

The librarian sighs. How can you know, she says, if no one teaches you, and no one ever talks about it, and all the books about it are gone?

Era tão fácil (...) descobrir coisas sobre as pessoas. Estava tudo disponível, tudo sobre elas. Bastava procurar. Era possível descobrir qualquer coisa sobre alguém caso se esforçasse para isso.

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

Los dos tenían esa sabiduría libresca que oculta una sorprendente ingenuidad.

Ter permissão para fazer algo e saber fazer algo são coisas diferentes.

she'd never known. No, she admitted to herself: she'd never chosen to know.

Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing." Moody

This cookbook, Lydia knew, was her mother's favorite book, and she leafed through it with the adoration of a devotee touching a Bible.

She's twenty-three, he thinks; she knows nothing about life, wasted or otherwise.

He wonders who decided which books were too dangerous to keep, and who it was that had to hunt down and collect the condemned books, like an executioner, ferrying them to their doom.

education costs money. but then so does ignorance.

The weight of everything he's read settles on him, crushing him to his chair. It is too heavy. He cannot even lift his head.

Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn't know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Celya Bowers

Kitap bir limand? benim için. Kitaplarda ya?ad?m. Ve kitaplardaki insanlar? sokaktakilerden daha çok sevdim.

Bizler ki ayn? kitaba ba? e?mi? insanlar?z. Bizden ala akraba m? olur?

?nsanlar kötüydü, kitaplara s???nd?m.

Seçme hürriyetimizin s?n?rs?z oldu?u tek dünya, kitaplar dünyas?d?r.

Kitap, istikbale yollanan mektup... smokin giyen heyecan, mumyalanan tefekkür. Kitap ve gazete... biri zaman?n d???ndad?r, öteki "an"?n kendisi. Kitap, beraber ya?ar sizinle, beraber büyür. Gazete okununca biter.

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.