Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The very least thing one should learn at the university is how to reach new knowledge.

Osman Doluca

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

Orrin Woodward

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

Rebecca Costa

Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.

Richard S. Hartmetz

Once can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Robert A. Heinlein

Books: open them. Your mind is calling for new horizons of knowledge and wonders.

Shannon Leigh Warren

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Lloyd Alexander

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Milton H. Erickson

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

A Wizard of Earthsea

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.

Jake Shimabukuro

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Thomas Malthus

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

Joseph B. Wirthlin