Quotes About Knowledge

The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

Giddy's answer did not surprise her, even as it did. Knowing and not knowing.

She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. —Mark Twain

How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a do-gooding scientific type with knowledge of English literature. That he had undercurrents of sadness as long and deep as a river was not the point. He had claimed a territory for himself and did not think too much about the complications.

As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read.

You can tell anytime,' Penn said, 'but once people know, they can never unknow.

Rosie knew this moment from raising four other children to this point already, the one where suddenly your kids know more than you do about something they've discovered all on their own, something real and important not just cartoons or video games. Amazing was exactly what it was." Chap. "Hedge Enemies

should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read. Maybe this is tragic irony, or maybe cause and effect. I do not know. What I do

people often are, even smart people who read—but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you.

Besides, there wasn't much the lab could tell a physician in 1940 that a well-trained, observant doctor couldn't determine independently.

The part of your mind that believes intuitive knowing to be impossible is that part of your mind for which it is impossible.

When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

The fact that establishment scientists say something doesn't exist doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It only means that science has no effective way to measure it.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.