Knowledge Seekers Quotes

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.