Top 1200 Useful Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

We’re days away from going full scale against Malone, and in the meantime, we’re under fire from above. And I’m about as useful as a three-legged dog.” “You’re much more useful than any kind of dog, mi vida.” Marc purred and pressed me into the counter, his hands on my hips. I couldn’t resist a smile. I was a real sucker for Spanish.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.