Knowledge Retention Quotes

#1. Guardians were made from the beasts that rule their souls, forced to share a human body so they would be servants to the Keepers.

Andrea Cremer

#2. If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

#3. Knowledge dispels fear.

David Gandy

#4. To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

Plautus

#5. A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Joseph Campbell

#6. Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. He was obsessed not only with the acquisition of knowledge, but with its retention.

George R R Martin

#9. Harry was particularly keen to avoid trouble with his aunt and uncle at the moment, as they were already in an especially bad mood with him, all because he'd received a telephone call from a fellow wizard one week into the school vacation.

J.K. Rowling

#10. I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

Larry Charles