Quotes About Knowledge

The eyes of men were but pinholes...All their books, even their scriptures, were nothing more than pinholes. And yet, because they couldn't see what was unseen, they assumed they saw everything, they confused pinpricks with the sky.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? —AJENCIS, THE EPISTEMOLOGIES

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.

You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.

And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things—all things!—but only so long as it remains invisible.

The ability to pass judgment without work or research has got to be the coolest consumer good since the invention of philosophy.

he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped away the mysteries, its dimensions collapsed rather than bloomed.

All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.

Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively] Don't they teach you anything in your schools? Not about this . Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.

Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.

I'm learning all the time. Well, you're a scholar.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes? Morley asked, leaning even closer. E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air. He seemed very smug that he knew that. Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?

Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway." There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.

Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.

I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass. Eve said. Irritated. All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?

The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.

When you steal a book, you steal from the world , the Library propaganda said

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

I love it when you talk dirty physics.

Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.