Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

I'm a sponge for information.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

With the Internet you can research anything.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.