Quotes About Knowledge

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow.

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

Miz Hetta? Inquiring minds wanna know." "You really want

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

mavourneen. They figured most of it out long ago.

take it to my clever friend shortly, then

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.