Quotes About Wisdom

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

But the Library still held everything he'd ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips

Tota est scientia ," he said. "Knowledge is all. It either is, or it isn't; you can't say some knowledge is evil because it's inconvenient for you. And anyone who claims differently has no understanding at all of what the Great Library represents.

With some enemies, it's safer to let them destroy themselves.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

Pharaoh has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space of the Serapeum, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the Library offers.

she was only eighteen." "Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better

Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.

His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse. We blind and hobble half of the world through such ignorance, and I will not have it. Women shall study at the Serapeum as they might be inclined. Let him execute me if he wishes, but I have seen enough of minds wasted in this world. I have a daughter. My daughter will learn.

he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it.

Tota est scientia.

Library rules the world, son.

Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?

He'd never wanted to know the future. If he didn't know storms were coming, it was easier to enjoy the sunshine.

Library rules the world, son. Best to have a seat at the table

Rough company," Dario said. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all.

Don't teach your granddad how to fish.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.