Thomas Huxley Quotes

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.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

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.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

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

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

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

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

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.