Quotes About Knowledge

With the right books, we can change everything.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage—make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand—are the greatest threats knowledge can face.

But the Library still held everything he'd ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips

Tota est scientia ," he said. "Knowledge is all. It either is, or it isn't; you can't say some knowledge is evil because it's inconvenient for you. And anyone who claims differently has no understanding at all of what the Great Library represents.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

So we must acknowledge that knowledge is ever expanding, ever changing, and so we must also change with it

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

knowledge is like any other treasure: it can be hoarded. It can be stolen. It can be scattered to the winds. And worst of all, it can inspire greed of a particularly poisonous kind.

Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.

You know it's desperate, she said. Shane is going to the library.

Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.

Jack of all trades, master of none...He'd always thought knowing many things gave him strength. Now it made him feel vulnerable.

he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it.

Goliath fell to a slingshot and a stone. and the Library is a lumbering giant, dying of its own arrogance; it has to change or fall. We have the tools. The will. The knowledge.

Tota est scientia.

Not all knowledge is books. Those out there, they're history in stone. Men carved them. Men sweated in this sun to put them there, to make their city more beautiful. Who are you to say what's worthy for men to see today, or tomorrow?

Library rules the world, son.

He'd never wanted to know the future. If he didn't know storms were coming, it was easier to enjoy the sunshine.

Archimedes said mathematics reveal its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love for its own beauty. But the Archivist has no love for knowledge. He wants only power. You are the club he swings to get it.

Library rules the world, son. Best to have a seat at the table

even the required Smart Librarian glasses.