Quotes About Knowledge

It's the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

And I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.

you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

No I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

What did I know about the horrors of the past? Did they leak into rooms like mist, under doors? Or shatter windows and burst directly into one's presence?

At first I thought I would study literature. Then, however, I realised I loved true stories even better than imaginary ones.

I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

Apparently they didn't realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

knows you're beyond yeoman level in your knowledge

some people were never satisfied by facts they had not themselves discovered.