Quotes About Knowledge

where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival;

The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. —ARISTOTLE

a boy learns better what he teaches himself....

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. A book that is good for me would very likely be punk for you.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.   Let us prescribe for you.

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

You sell a man a book, you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Non esiste in astratto un buon libro: un libro è buono soltanto quando appaga una fame umana, o confuta qualche umano errore.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.

Non c'è uomo più riconoscente di quello a cui si è dato proprio il libro che la sua anima desiderava inconsciamente.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.