Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

Guo Guangchang

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

George Jackson

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Henry Miller

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Hippocrates

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Jay Griffiths

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Janet Jackson

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

James Northcote

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

Justin Rosenstein

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Kofi Annan

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

Pierce Brosnan

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker