Quotes About Knowledge

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.

He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

The salarians had a saying: the mind with many secrets can never rest.

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Ahora tenemos la evidencia aceptada de que necesariamente tuvo que haber alguien en la Tierra de una civilización muy desarrollada al menos hace 10,000 años.

Thot. Está sosteniendo cañas de papiro porque él fue la persona que introdujo la escritura en el mundo. La introducción de la escritura fue algo muy importante, probablemente el acto de mayor influencia que haya ocurrido en este planeta en este ciclo. Logró más cambios en nuestra evolución y conciencia que cualquier otro hecho individual en nuestra historia conocida.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at its highest level...A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

To know is to possess, & any fact is possessed by everyone who knows it, whereas those who feel the truth are possessed, not possessors.

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.

Claudia began her studies never doubting that she could become an authority that morning. She had neither pencil nor paper to make notes. And she knew she wouldn't have a lot of time to read. So she decided that she would simply remember everything, absolutely everything she read. Her net profit, therefore, would be as great as that of someone who read a great deal but remembered very little.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

for whenever men are right they are not young