Quotes About Knowledge

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor)

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Randomness It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge. —MARQUIS DE LAPLACE A

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'.

This is all there is! So that you children will know and live right!

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.

I know one fortunate little boy whose parents told him the facts of life so satisfactorily, he said in the next breath, "Now tell me how they make peanut butter."),

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

N)ot everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.

I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance

It was important for a Roman of this period to get his Greek mythology right. Being able to identify who was who and what was what was a sign that the viewer was a person of culture and status.

How will I know I've grown up? When I've started using words I didn't really know the meaning of. I said I did that already and she said yes but I worried about it and grown-ups didn't.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

I've always had a hard time figuring out what the moral of a story is supposed to be, and she was bound to know: She'd been to college.

She knows her place, she sure does know her place. There's something ghostlike about this girl . . .

I know too much to go back and pretend.