Top 1200 Useless Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

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?

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

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

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.

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 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.

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later some use will be found for our studies. The mathematician, of course, prides himself on being totally useless, but usually turns out to be the most useful of the lot. He finds the solution but he is not interested in what the problem is: sooner or later, someone will find the problem to which his solution is the answer.

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

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

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

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

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

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

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

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

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

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

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

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

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

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

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.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

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.

I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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