Stewart Brand Quotes

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

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

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

The older you get, the more you learn.