Knowledge Quotes

"The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know."

- Leonard Peikoff

"By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?"

- Calvin Trillin

"Hummingbirds that defend territories of many flowers remember which flowers they have recently emptied."

- Susan Healy

"Beware false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

- William Shakespeare

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

- Albert Einstein

"Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."

- Sarah J. Maas

"When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian."

- American Library Association

"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one."

- Neil Gaiman

"Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge."

- Patrick Ness

"Classification, broadly defined, is the act of organizing the universe of knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind."

- Lois Mai Chan

"Cataloging is an old-fashioned term for resource access and discovery services. With resources increasingly available and accessed electronically, description and access points are vital to discovery and use by students and faculty."

- Jan Daniel

"There is fantastic information in books. Often when I do a search, what is in a book is miles ahead of what I find on a Web site."

- Sergey Brin

"Cataloguing is more than merely ‘processing’ an item. Metadata gives voice to collected works, brings their form and meaning to the surface of discovery, so that collections might be found and enjoyed."

- Alissa M.

"Only librarians like to search, Everyone else likes to find."

- Roy Tennant

"London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really."

- David Attenborough

"The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing."

- Barry Eisler

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"A library could show you everything if you knew where to look."

- Pat Conroy

"A great library contains the diary of the human race."

- George Mercer Dawson

"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks."

- Sir James Mackintosh

"Coffee is a very good conductor!"

- Anthony Thyssen

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge."

- Sigmund Freud

"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."

- Ivan Pavlov

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."

- Ivan Pavlov

"Knowledge is Power"

"Keep information flowing"

"Knowledge is power"

"Language is the tool of the tools."