# Quote — Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

> Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.

- Author: [Leigh Brackett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett.md)
- Book: [The Long Tomorrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett/the-long-tomorrow.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett/the-long-tomorrow/knowledge-is-not

## More from this book

> “Was he trying to frighten you?”
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> “I don’t think so,” said Len. “I think he was just telling me the truth.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett/the-long-tomorrow/was-he-trying.md)

> I have let it blow through me, and it is just a wind. I have let the words sound in my ears, and they are nothing but words, spoken by an ignorant man with a dusty beard. They do not stir me, they do not touch me. I am done with them, too.
>
> I know now what lies across the land, the slow and heavy weight. They call it faith, but it is not faith. It is fear. The people have clapped a shelter over their heads, a necessity of ignorance, a passion of retreat, and they have called it God, and worshiped it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett/the-long-tomorrow/i-have-let.md)

> “Hell, how do you think the human race ever learned anything, except by trial and error?”
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> “But it all takes such a long, long time,” said Len.”
>
> “Everything takes a long time. Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life, and what are you complaining about, anyway?”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leigh-brackett/the-long-tomorrow/hell-how-do-you.md)