Quotes About Knowledge

It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours. from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

What do you know about this business?' the King said to Alice. 'Nothing,' said Alice. 'Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King. 'Nothing whatever,' said Alice.

the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know—

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

know better'; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make

So young a child, said the gentleman sitting opposite to her, (he was dressed in white paper,) ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

and what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking!No,it'll never do to ask:perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.

Una niña tan pequeña, debería saber la dirección en la que viaja, ¡Incluso antes de conocer su propio nombre!.

schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) '--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?

Please stop posting movie quotes as if they were from the book. Maybe even read the book for real!

When you're older," said the Professor, "you'll know that you can't put Mountains together again so easily!

I'm older than you, and must know better." And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

A lot of people won't listen to old men. A lot of people are stupid.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th Century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.