Astrology Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth, and sky.”

— S.A. Smith

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

— V. S. Naipaul

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

— Anonymous

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken

“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such…

— René Descartes

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The stars and planets do not guide us. Instead, they are guided by the core of our being and reflect our physical moment in…

— Matthew A. Petti

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I write to discover what I know.

— Flannery O'Connor