Quotes About Knowledge

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.