Quotes About Knowledge

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

But what is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.

Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

A library card is a credit card.

Lucy: What in the world is so great about having a library card? Linus: It's what it stands for! They trust me! They're honoring my desire for knowledge with their trust! In return I'm showing my faith in their library by reading their books… it's a common bond of trust… Lucy: You haven't got a library card… you've got a treaty!

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.

Literature lights the ages.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

...we arrive at the mathematical laws of the physical world. Physics is mathematical, not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.