Quotes About Knowledge

Now and again when a book moved her, when a book opened a previously undiscovered window in her mind and forever altered her perception of the world, she would add it to those secret ranks. Once in

he can put off knowing what he already knows. He can prolong the moment of irrational hope that maybe some sliver of yesterday's world is still intact.

If you can't trust a librarian, who can you trust?

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner? Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

So she was always in the middle of at least one book and felt safe only if she had several more on standby.

A history lesson disguised as a story,

Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.

It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.

Names and knowledge change, the way the turning world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.