Quotes About Knowledge

The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me.

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so

Cijeli svoj život Klaus je vjerovao da ako ?itaš dovoljno knjiga, možeš riješiti bilo koji problem, no sad više nije bio siguran.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course!

Sometimes, the information you need is not in the most obvious place.

If you enter a library looking for a particularly quiet place to read, head straight for the philosophy section. Because no one likes to read philosophy, no one will be there, and you will be undisturbed to read, to write or just to think and keep watch, as I do and have always done.

Who you are and what you read is private in a library.

Whether is was Uncle Monty's library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine's library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss's library of law books, or, best of all their parents' library of all kinds of books - all burn up now, alas - libraries always made them feel a little better. Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

never trust anyone without a book

Nem értették, miért történik ez velük, de a balszerencse szempontjából egyáltalán nem számít, hogy az ember tudja-e, miért éri a baj.

after they had been reunited with their baby sister and learned the secret of Verbal Fridge Dialogue. And

There's a library," I said, "and a fine journalist, and several interesting people. That's more than most places have.

Don't you see?' he asked. 'I'm not just the island's facilitator. I'm the island's parent. I keep this library far away from the people under my care, so that they will never be disturbed by the world's terrible secrets.

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.

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

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return

There were books on all sorts of topics, from exciting things of vital importance to things that nobody had a reason to care about, but in a library the topics keep taking turns being important or interesting. Each patron in a library is looking for something different, and so the book you hardly notice is the book someone else is breathless to find, and the book that always makes you smile is busy making someone else sick.

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

Wicked people never have time for reading

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

A library is like an island on a vast sea of ignorance.