Quotes About Knowledge

If you pretend to know you aren't going to actually learn.

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was "Googled" and "blogged." Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

What is essential is invisible to the eye. Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.

Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries.

You're not quite as ignorant as you pretend, Chief Inspector." "Oh, my ignorance knows no bounds, Father.

Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The Little Prince. He hadn't, as a child. It was only as he got older that he knew it to be true.

Had he not been a cop, he'd have loved to be a historian or archivist. Going over old papers, finding curiosities buried in obscure libraries.

She consulted the yellowing Rolodex in her head.

four sentences that lead to wisdom.

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

You're a trainee, here to learn,' he said quietly, directly into the slightly pursed face. 'Therefore a certain teaching is necessary. Do you enjoy learning?' 'Yes, sir.' 'And how do you learn?' 'Sir?' 'The question is clear. Think about it, please, and answer.

Antes de los portátiles y de las BlackBerry y del resto de las herramientas que confundían la información con el conocimiento.

Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.

first two were obvious.

Oscar Wilde said there's no sin except stupidity.

Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.

Ha, she thought, he gets it. He'd given her one of the key statements in response. She quickly went through the other statements, the ones that lead to promotion. I forget, I'm sorry, I need help and what was the other one? 'I don't know.

I know what I'm doing," said Armand. "And I know an epitaph when I hear it.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom.

stopped subscribing to the Montreal papers. Ignorance really was bliss.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

John had said McKindless would be revealed through his library, but John was a bookseller; he formed his opinion of everyone through their books.