Quotes About Knowledge

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

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

If I'm stuck in bed it's not unusual for me to read half a dozen books in a day. I know I'm not going to live forever, I know there are more books than I can ever read. But I know that in my head, the same way I know the speed of light is a limit. In my heart I know reading is forever and FTL is just around the corner.

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

Racconto a vossignoria quel che io so e vossignoria non sa; ma soprattutto voglio raccontare quello che io non so se so, e può essere che vossignoria sappia

Montagne che uno va salendo, per scoprire altre montagne. Ci sono cose di tutti i generi. Vivendo, s'impara; ma quel che s'impara, di più, è solo a fare altre e maggiori domande.

Aí me explicou: um senhor, no Palhão, na fazenda Nhanva, altas beiras do Jequitaí, para o ensino de todas as matérias estava encomendando um professor.

Un maître n'est pas celui qui sans cesse enseigne, mais celui qui soudain apprend.

Those are the things that cannot be learned by means of words and consequently cannot be taught by means of words.

Magic is made not from outside but from inside. That was why people mentioned so much the need to have faith for things to happen, for after all, faith is nothing but a way to see the world that makes it possible for the things you wish to happen. Faith, therefore, is a knowledge.

ao contrário do que se pensa, a magia não é feita de fora, mas de dentro. Por isso é que se fala tanto na necessidade de ter fé para que as coisas aconteçam, pois a fé, afinal, não passa de uma maneira de ver o mundo que torna possíveis aquelas coisas que se deseja que aconteçam. A fé, portanto, é um conhecimento [...]

Sem conseguir resolver para onde olhar durante todo esse tempo, Dafé se admirou de haver tanta ciência naquela gente comum, se admirou também de nunca ter visto nos livros que pessoas como essas pudessem possuir conhecimentos e habilidades tão bonitos, achou até mesmo a mãe uma desconhecida, misteriosa e distante, em seu saber antes nunca testemunhado. Quantos estudos não haveria ali, como ficavam todos bonitos fazendo ali suas tarefas, agora também ela ia ser pescadora!

El conocimiento aplicado es poder". Si sabes y no haces las cosas, no sabes nada. Es así de sencillo.

Sir Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is power.

The important thing is to share what you know. Be generative and pass it on. This is what makes all the difference.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.