Quotes About Knowledge

Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.

Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. If you'd prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.

I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.

What do you have there?" he asked, always interested to discover what a person was reading, for he believed it was possible to see inside a person's soul once you knew which books mattered to them.

Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.

once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.

Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It

First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.

First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them. They burned books about medicine and magic, books in Hebrew and in Spanish and Portuguese.

And yes, he supposed his mother had something to do with that as well, for she'd been the one who had opened that world to him. Don't think you know everything, when you know so little. Stop wasting your time and read this.

She realized it had never been love between them, for you cannot love someone you can never know.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

Because what someone reads in a library is nobody else's business.

She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.

Some words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Books] 'they will divide us. They'll make us think the world outside can teach you ore than you can learn right here

Reading is never wasted time