Quotes About Knowledge

Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry.

She knew too much. -A

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Do you know hot to drive? he asked. Sure, she said. This one is the gas.

Lie. Lie to everyone until you know the truth.

Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone? In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Don't I know it.

You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing

estaba empezando a darme cuenta de que lo desconocido no es siempre lo más temible. La gente que mejor te conoce puede suponer un peligro mayor, porque las palabras que dicen y las cosas que piensan tienen el riesgo no solo de dar miedo, sino también de ser verdad.

You first learn truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know." "My mother," I told him, pushing the cart farther up the aisle as he lagged along beside, taking long, loping steps, "doesn't even like scrambled eggs. She only eats eggs Benedict.

No reading can be called a vice.

If I should have a daughter… I'm gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say 'oh I know that like the back of my hand.

And I'm going to pain the solar systems on the backs of her hands, so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.

Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.

Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.

But appreciation of beauty can also creep up on you. It can be a taste acquired through experience, time, love and deepening knowledge.

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.