Quotes About Knowledge

And reading all different kinds of books is not simply reading all different kinds of books; it's a way of becoming more fully human and more humane.

all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.

I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first.

asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first. I don't think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn't known what was going to happen. I'd have been way too worried.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying

I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

The Uncommon Reader,

there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. Mom

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

one of the things I learned from Mom is this: Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying.

The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter...

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Wetenschap is de titanische poging van het menselijk intellect zich uit zijn kosmische isolement te verlossen door te begrijpen

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

The power to veto or negate is the power of free will. Free will is "free won't."9 This connects neatly with information theory, which, as we will see, characterizes information as a reduction or ruling out of possibilities. To be informed that something is the case is to be informed that other things are not the case. Information says yes to some things by saying no to others. Free will is the power of no.