Quotes About Knowledge

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

What do your parents know, about surviving?

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

How did you do that?" Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things." "My sister is a nice girl," Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.