Quotes About Knowledge

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

Der Hunger nach guten Büchern ist weiter verbreitet und hartnäckiger, als Sie glauben, aber in gewisser Weise trotzdem vielfach unbewusst. Die Menschen brauchen Bücher, wissen es aber nicht. Meistens wissen sie gar nicht, dass es die Bücher, die sie brauchen, überhaupt gibt.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

educated on the craft. If this is the first book you have read on the craft,

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

Now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

In my own pursuits I have drawn heavily from four traditional yoga texts: the Siva Samhita, the Goraksa Sataka, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines as translated by Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

One of the regular temptations seducing historians and their audience is to imagine knowledge of the past

Both anger and alcohol put people in the position where, paradoxically, they have knowledge that moves them to act but also lack the wisdom needed to act well.

In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to theological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories...