Quotes about Knowledge

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

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

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

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.

A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.

Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness.

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

each of us has knowledge of how to live life differently that no one taught us, and that we can find this knowledge inside ourselves and put it to use.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love. And people start to love you back, I bet, I say. They do, he say, surprise.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...