Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ Patrick Ness slams library cuts ( The Guardian , 23 June 2011)]

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked. Oh, I have heard of it, the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. But people usually know better than to speak it to me.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

And still you make fun," Tomassz complains, "after I am saving your life. Again. So tell me please, your inntricate knowledge of Polish references. Yes, that would be most amusing. Long, long talk now about Polish language and the words Polish people use to feel in picturesque language." "Where did you learn English? The 1950s?

Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.

But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.

A little knowledge could be a large comfort.

But guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me, Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

You know. And if you don't know, you don't want to.

I look up to him. His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

The loud is a different kind of loud, because swamp loud is just curiosity, creachers figuring out who you are and if yer a threat. Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yerself left at all? Swamp

Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone.

Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Yes,' said Jasper, flatly, 'and it was very illuminating. It is, perhaps, less illuminating now.