Quotes About Knowledge

Thomas had tried to educate himself, mainly by reading everything he could find. When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

because it costs a lot to not be aware.

He is one of the cursed, a Tantalus, whose literary hunger perpetually gnaws but can never be satiated. He has read everything at least once.

this knowledge—like love, sex, or having or not having a baby—has nothing to do with government.

WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...

I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...

He had the same trouble as all intellectuals—he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.

You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.

Sonuçta savaÅŸ dediÄŸiniz ÅŸey, anlamad???n?z ne varsa odur

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

That is one of the advantagers of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve

I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

Czy to nie przyjemnie, ?e jest tak du?o rzeczy, które jeszcze poznamy? To wÅ'aÅ›nie sprawia, ?e ja siÄ™ tak cieszÄ™ ?yciem... Å›wiat jest taki ciekawy... Nie byÅ'by taki ani w poÅ'owie, gdybyÅ›my wszystko o nim wiedzieli, prawda?

It's better to imagine than to know.

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