Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Cat's Cradle

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

City of God

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

The Complete Poetry

Reading leads to knowledge,knowledge leads to empowerment. Empowerment leads to greatness...you want to be great don't you?

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

The Knowledge of the Holy

Books and knowledge don’t make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

Noble Conflict

For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

The Last Will of Moira Leahy

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

The Lost Princess of Oz

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

Light Years

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

Tawhid and Science

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What Is Knowledge For?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The Warlock

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

Thomas Cleary

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

James Wood

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Kahlil Gibran

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Rumi

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.

Townsend Harris