Quotes About Knowledge

You have the hey to the library, he said. Only be careful what you read.

He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.

The story is smarter than I am.

will be a scientific adventure.

You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher? Oh no! Mrs Carey remarked with a smile, I am just a mother- that's all!

Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer? She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. To annoy you, dearest.

That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies—" He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. "—out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars.

She's read many books.

These things you know." Scarlett shook her head in a mock amazement. "Where do you get all this stuff from " "Books you know the things made from words printed on paper and bound together. Im sure you must have seen one even if you've never opened one " Max said. "Ha ha very funny " Scarlett said. Hannah found she had remembered how to smile.

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just a bit more data to gather. But well before you've done all the research you'd like to do, there comes a point when you must start thinking about the first draft of your report.

Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix, they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.

You can't explain a degree to a dog

the smartest things you can do is talk to someone who has done a similar project before and confirm what those steps are. Perhaps

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.

Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or at home, but it was a genuine kind of best. He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. He was rich, very rich, but no one could know about it for now except his fellow outlaw, Julia Edmunds.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

They were always nice to Jess when he went over, but then they would suddenly begin talking about French politics or string quartets (which he at first thought was a square box made out of string), or how to save the timber wolves or redwoods or singing whales, and he was scared to open his mouth and show once and for all how dumb he was.

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask What is truth? and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

As I turn and walk toward Murray Hill and home and purring Phoebe, I suspect that we do not know any more than the people of the past did, but only think somewhat differently.