Knowledge Importance Quotes

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

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.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.