Utilizing Knowledge Quotes

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.

I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

I like to make use of what I know

So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not only to connect to computers, but to connect to people; not only to bridge gaps in science, but to bridge gaps between cultures; not only to use numbers and formulas to create, but to use words to lead, and in the process, to close that canyon between ignorance and understanding.