Quotes About Knowledge

cuanto más aprendas sobre el «qué» y el «porqué», más fácil y eficaz se volverá el «cómo».

remember from my own

And the knowledge of how to stay sane in this rapidly worsening situation can seem hard to come by - as if it's hiding away from our crude, self-obsessed, materialistic culture. Consequently many people live and die without ever knowing such wisdom exists, (though perhaps it was never withheld from those who sincerely sought it).

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

He had won it as a child, playing Scriptural Jeopardy in his Sunday-school class. When faced with answers from the Bible, Ig had all the right questions.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.

Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.

LIBRARIES: WHERE SHHH HAPPENS.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. Check it out: I'm twenty years old, and I'm one of the top five SS-Scrabble players in the whole state. I guess that might say more about Iowa than it says about me.

Sabia que capitães de navio podem celebrar casamentos? O que pouca gente sabe é que bombeiros também podem outorgar divórcios.

Something that doesn't know it's alive, obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

It would be a librarian.

In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.

He had heard it the way he wanted to hear it. He had known what he had wanted to know. Maybe it was always that way for almost everyone.

Who says we're smart?' she asked, in a tone of playful contempt. 'We never even mastered fire. We thought we did, but you see now, it has mastered us.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of so much compressed wisdom.

You found yourself a librarian! I can help with the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.

Something that doesn't know it's alive obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.