Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. - Abu Bakr Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state. - Blaise Pascal Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. - Ambrose Bierce Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other t...

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. - Tom Stoppard It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. - Jim Hinckley Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. - Albert J Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. - Albert J Nock The university's business is the conservation ...

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance - Douglas Adams In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. - Anthony J Dangelo The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. - George Pelecanos I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn. - Vincent Price Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge. - Emmitt Smith When was the last time you used the words 'te...

In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was mistaken in metaphysics and theory of knowledge. - Bertrand Russell Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality. - Paul Watzlawick

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? - Lloyd Alexander Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. - John Green It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. - Thomas Friedman

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. - Bernard Of Clairvaux The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge. - Brian Herbert Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. - Anne Rice

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. - Thomas Jefferson What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life. (Will Durant, Story of Civilization, pg 1, vol. 1) - Will Durant A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. - B H Liddell Hart The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. - Napoleon Hill It's really cool to know that you...

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. - William Moulton Marston How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. - Thomas Merton

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. - Mortimer Adler The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. - Abu Bakr I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians. - Matt Cameron People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? - Tom Clancy We need to let our children grow up to fac...

There is a lesson in [Terezn] for those who conduct inspections in our day, whether in prisons, sweatshops, refugee camps, polling places, or nuclear facilities: do not trustpush; control your own schedule; do your homework. Remember the adage that a little knowledge can be dangerous. The truth is more likely to be served by a canceled or aborted inspection than by a whitewash. - Madeleine Albright He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. - Samuel Johnson The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. - Samuel Johnson Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings,...

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge. - Sorin Cerin Lack of knowledge... that is the problem. - W Edwards Deming Angelica didn't care if she was forbidden from doing something because she relished in the challenge of finding the answer. She needed to know everything because a lack of knowledge terrified her. Angelica was forever afraid of things she didn't know or didn't understand. Thus, she opened the attic door... - Rachel M Greenebaum How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long. - Steve Harvey We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. - Leon Jouhaux The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affecti...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Jacob Bronowski Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less? - J R R Tolkien Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. - Abigail Adams The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. - Joseph Addison Knowledge is very vital in lifes transformation and transition - Jaachynma N E Agu Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. And yet time eventually runs ...

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. - Jayz A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. - Leonard Ravenhill

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. - John Adams And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. - John Adams The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. - Orson Scott Card For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. - Lafcadio Hearn There is a general...

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. - Benjamin Franklin There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. - Denis Diderot I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. - William Glasser As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. - ...