Rainbow Rowell Quotes

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

Light itself is a revelation.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Truths kindle light for truths.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet.

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.