Quotes About Knowledge

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman?

Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.

Molotov explained how that book, should one be foolish enough to open it, gave the power to read things and creatures out of any book in the world.

The statue showed a man with a pile of books behind him. His name was Nicolò Tommaseo, but everyone in the city just call him the Book Man.

Creo que ella se alimenta de letras. Toda su casa está abarrotada de libros. Ella los prefiere claramente a la compañía de las personas

I libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos.

So many questions. Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. Richard de Bury, The Philobiblon

Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel par ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel para ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.

Whenever she wanted to escape her own thoughts, she went to books for help.

Jacob hatte sich immer gefragt, ob es nur einen Spiegel gab. Offenbar war die Antwort Nein.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them…

keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

My library was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, The Tempest

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman? Solomon Eagle

Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.

Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

For hundreds of years, the human race has dreamt of a world where knowledge could be shared universally, where every human being on the planet could have access to our storehouse of knowledge. Because knowledge is power, and shared knowledge is a superpower. Now, after centuries, we have it within our grasp to realize one of our most beautiful dreams.

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.