Quotes About Knowledge

When I was in love with her, with a lover's tendency to mythify the beloved did I know her better than I do now, when we know our limits? Now

There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.

One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts—who can say when that will come in handy?

So when I hear this snarky question (and I hear it everywhere): Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? all I can say is, are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever. Google and Yahoo! and Bing and WolframAlpha can help you find answers to your questions, sometimes brilliantly; but if you don't know how to phrase those questions, no search engine can help provide the answers.

Someday, I will stop being surprised at all the things librarians read; they'll read anything.)

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

It's harder to be afraid of something you understand

I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.