Quotes About Knowledge

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I think the Mailman is taking us on one at a time, starting with the weakest, drawing us in far enough to learn our True Names—and then destroying us.

Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.

I'm a librarian, not a leader." "You're both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.

modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?" says Christina. Yes," says Will, looking puzzled. Didn't you?

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Democratic citizenship requires knowledge of war—and now, in the age of weapons of mass annihilation, more than ever.

A library implies an act of faith.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.