Quotes About Knowledge

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

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.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don't necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes it's a word from a book that you read every day.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

All lessons are useful.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.