The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?
Love without knowledge is demonic.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
I can't protect you from knowledge.
We live by information, not by sight.
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage. . . will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength. . . and his weakness.