Theme: knowledge
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Revelation in Reverse
"Nothing if you read from left to right, but mark, if from right to left--" "Backwards!" cried my uncle, in wild amazement. "Oh most cunning Saknussem...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Media and Truth
I have already learned all that is in the public prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct—this article, for example, as to the di...
Frankenstein / Self-Taught Pursuits
It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was,...
Dracula / Mind and Madness
I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk
We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception
Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...
Dracula / Strategic Forethought
As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work. “It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Deductive Curiosity
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and tha...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Insight and Revelation
Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked...
Dracula / Burden of Secrecy
Henceforth our work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cultural Negotiation
His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time require...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry
What would become of us?" "Don't be alarmed at the heat, my boy." "How so?" "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the ea...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Quest for Enlightenment
Our downward journey is quite checked." I held out my hand, and, after some little difficulty, succeeded in touching the wall. "The torch--the torch!"...
Dracula / Science and Belief
Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...
The War of the Worlds / Preservation of Knowledge
It’s saving our knowledge and adding to it is the thing. We must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Navigational Perils
It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d’Urville. It bore more northwards, coasted the I...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Anomaly
If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted. What natural force could possibly have produced such abnormal and extraordinary pla...
Frankenstein / Disillusioned Pursuits
I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not a...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Paradox
"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned me...
Gulliver's Travels / Truth and Authority
He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected. The learning of that country very imperfect and confined. The laws, and military...
Dracula / Business Acumen
Is it not so?” “Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one p...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nautilus Revelation
The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the _Nautilus_. Then he began his description in these words:— “Here, M. ...
Frankenstein / Cultural Exchange
He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a cursory...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Knowledge and Chaos
Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a...
Frankenstein / Intellectual Passion
My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disa...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Uncharted Territories
"Yes, you have no idea how many unknown mountains, glaciers, volcanoes there are which remain to be studied. Without moving from where we sit, I can s...
Gulliver's Travels / Eccentric Ambitions
Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration Dialogue
It is my intention to try my luck with my fishing line and hook." "Certainly; make the experiment," said my uncle, pleased with my enthusiasm. "While ...
Pride and Prejudice / Character Reflection
Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too oft...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Observation and Discovery
Conseil and I remained to survey the shore, observing and studying until five o’clock. Then I went to bed, not, however, without invoking, like the In...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Intuition and Survival
Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity--of the slightest percolation. It now became evident that the hun...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Knowledge
Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought: “M. Aronnax,” he asked, “do you know the depth of the ocean?” “I only know, Captain, w...
Frankenstein / Truth and Discovery
The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Mapping Discovery
"But see, what is all this about Yocul, and Sneffels, and this Scartaris? I have never heard anything about them." "The very point to which I am comin...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Observation vs Interpretation
“I can see nothing,” said I, handing it back to my friend. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.” “Then, pray tell me what it is that you can ...