value of knowledge Quotes

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.

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

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

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.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

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

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

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

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.