Quotes About Knowledge

Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

knowledge is as powerful, in its own way, as any magic, and that magic without knowledge is worse than useless; it is dangerous.

It still comes as a shock to realize that I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know. —PATRICIA HAMPL If

The books he had read, the people he had met, and the ideas in which he had steeped himself for three years had transformed him.

Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail,

She met adversity with information.

I would offer to share my knowledge of locks, which, despite your mockery, is actually quite considerable, in a private tutorial, but I fear your aunt would insist on joining that as well," he said, taking her hand and raising it to his lips.

but the importation of knowledge did not mean the exportation of wisdom.

Lynn Thorndike

Alfonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284)

Lynn Thorndike

We therefore owe our universities to the Middle Ages.

Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

Although we perceive science as an ultimate truth, science is finally just a story, told in installments.

The remarkable discoveries of these scientists suggested

Underlying such suspicions was the enormous gulf of knowledge and understanding between America's heartland and the East Coast—and in particular the East's financial and cultural hub, New York City.

I'm no connoisseur of wines, but I know what's bad.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words.