Rainbow Rowell Quotes

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.