Knowledge Value Quotes

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

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.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.