Quotes About Knowledge

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. - Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.

Here our best guide is once again the Venerable Bede,

absorb them, and relegate them to the status

the king would have lacked both the time and the depth of understanding to have done any of the intellectual heavy

Alfred's additional reason for assembling his A-list of intellectuals was to assist him in producing books

Even when the libraries had been full of books,

Scandinavians knew all about the rich coastal communities of the kingdoms to the south,

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Sometimes scientific progress forces us to reevaluate the wisdom of the past. Other times, it reinforces it. The

Je venais de tomber dans mon propre passé. Fort heureusement, je connaissais bien les risques inhérents aux paradoxes temporels, et j'eus le bon réflexe de ne pas m'attarder.

Le sage, le bon général ou le médecin clairvoyant est celui qui sait voir et lire là où les autres ne voient encore rien.

Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Minerve, et qu'elle représentait la sagesse, je fis un si grand éclat de rire qu'il me fallut copier, jusqu'au gérondif, quatre verbes qui, de plus, étaient déponents.

je levais la main et je demandais des explications

She reads books all the time. Sometimes for an hour without stopping!" "That's not too good, Galinette. A poor girl who reads books—I can't say I care for that...

Quand on ne sait pas grand chose, on est toujours cruel pour ceux qui savent encore moins.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.