Quotes About Knowledge

The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.

But I want to read a book ! Charmain protested.

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—' 'Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

She read a great deal, and very soon realised how little chance she had of an interesting future.

She read a great deal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of an interesting future.

You've rotted your mind with reading books.

There's an enormous library, which boasts a copy of every book in the world — and many more from other worlds as well.

Books are borrowed minds, and because they capture the soul of a people, they explore and celebrate all it means to be human.

Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

Antonina wondered if humans might use the same metaphor and picture the war days as a sort of hibernation of the spirit, when ideas, knowledge, science, enthusiasm for work, understanding, and love—all accumulate inside, [where] nobody can take them from us. Of

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

I thought we'd known everything there was to know about each other but obviously that wasn't the case.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

So You Want To Be A Wizard?

Knowing is most of my job," the Transcendent Pig said. "But then there's a long tradition of oracular pigs. I should know: I started it." It paused. "That is, assuming you're into sequential time." "It works all right for me," Nita said, rather cautiously. "Well, preference is everything, as far as time's concerned; you can handle it however you like.

The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.