Quotes About Knowledge

You're a library of me.

That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Libraries are not failing because they are libraries. Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English Civil War, of French wines—I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time?

Like many academics, Howard was innocent of the world. He could identify thirty different ideological trends in the social sciences, but did not really know what a software engineer was.

Novels are what I know, and the novel door in my personality is always open.

He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?

She could never simply sit somewhere and let time pass, she had to be learning something.

It looks backward, at the past, and it learns from what's gone before. Some people never learn." My

These are old secrets. They will come out like wisdom teeth when the time is right.)

They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢ Ã¢â'¬Â¢

That is a common mistake. The truth does not depend on what you read.

That girl," tutted Alsana as her front door slammed. "Swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.

What could she know about the waves of time that simply come at a person, one after the other? What could she know about life as the temporary, always partial, survival of that process?

Libraries are not failing 'because they are libraries'. Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

It's not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three-dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

les livres sont des miroirs,et l`on n y voit que ce qu`on porte en soi-meme.

I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry...

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

A man who believes he's nothing more to learn about women is a damn fool.

she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.