Knowledge Is Good Quotes

#1. Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.

Tom Stoppard

#2. All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Thomas Huxley

#3. My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.

Brian O'Driscoll

#4. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

Shmuel Niger

#6. The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Mark Slouka

#8. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

Friedrich Von Logau

#9. There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?

Miriam Brenaman

#10. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!

Benjamin Franklin

#11. There is no better adviser than a good book.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Plato

#13. All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

#16. One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

Ugo Mochi

#17. How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?

Aristotle.

#18. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Charles Handy

#19. There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

J.I. Packer

#20. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

#21. Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Don DeLillo

#22. There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

Jon Erickson

#23. The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

Thomas Malthus

#24. Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Herbert Spencer

#25. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

#26. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands
But the scene is grey.

Stephen Crane

#27. The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#28. Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Pat Williams

#29. We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge.

Chris Matakas

#30. Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Robert Henri

#31. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Anna Agoncillo

#32. Statements that will hold good for all time are difficult to obtain in archaeology. The most that can be done at any one time is to report on the current state of knowledge.

Jennifer K. McArthur

#33. Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#34. I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

Maggie Nelson

#35. Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

Richard P. Feynman

#36. Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge.
- Bran

Patricia Briggs

#37. I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

Barack Obama

#38. The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.

James Howard Kunstler

#39. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Zack Love

#40. Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)

Alan Bennett

#41. A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Emanuel Lasker

#42. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

Swami Vivekananda

#43. The game is never over. The universe has a pretty good knowledge management system and stores every new idea, every innovation ever attempted in its bottomless ledgers.

Rohit Prasad

#44. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.

Steven Pinker

#45. Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

Guy Clark

#46. Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.

Sara Zarr

#47. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

Arnold Arre

#48. - This, she said, is a book. It is one of our ways of codifying and keeping human knowledge. When it cannot be kept in a person's head, this is one method of keeping it safe. It is a good way of moving ideas from one head to another, as it only requires one person's time to do it, and not two.

Jesse Ball

#49. Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy

Brian Morton

#50. Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

#51. Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq

#52. Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

Anne Catherine Emmerich

#53. Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

Isaac Asimov

#54. It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

Stanislaw Lem

#55. Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Terence McKenna

#56. Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

#57. A philosopher has the moderate love for wisdom and the courage to act according to wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge about the Good or the right relations between all that exists. Wherein

Plato

#58. Be good and kind to yourself in silence when you are all alone, that is all that matters.

Debasish Mridha

#59. In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

Barack Obama

#60. Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.

Esther Hicks

#61. I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Plato

#62. Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results

Michael Crichton

#63. To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Phillips Brooks

#64. Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

Christopher Paolini

#65. Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John Wilbanks

#66. 2. Desire [1] without knowledge is not good, and whoever c makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Anonymous

#67. In all human societies, health and education have an intrinsic value: the ability to enjoy years of good health, like the ability to acquire knowledge and culture, is one of the fundamental purposes of civilization.

Thomas Piketty

#68. I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree. My view is this: The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#69. It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#70. Knowledge is to 'differentiate' between 'good' and 'bad'; Wisdom is to 'extract' the hidden 'good' even out of the 'bad'!

G.S. Krishnan

#71. The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Michel De Montaigne

#72. The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon

#73. And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Plato

#74. Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

Tom Riley

#75. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Daniel C. Dennett

#76. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Carl Sagan

#77. I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Ellie Goulding

#78. There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so.

Debasish Mridha

#79. A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge

C.S. Lewis

#80. Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

Eckhart Tolle

#81. The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter.

William J. Bennett

#82. I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Pearl S. Buck

#83. It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

Jerome Hines

#84. There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.

Aristotle.

#85. There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.

Confucius

#86. How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#87. Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Dee Hock

#88. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Malcolm Gladwell

#89. Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.

Marie De France

#90. Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates

#91. Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

Tomoki Kameda

#92. The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

Robert Farrar Capon

#93. Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.

Debasish Mridha

#94. There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#95. Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

Ibn Arabi

#96. If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Richard Kearney

#97. I find that I can have no enjoyment in the World but continual drinking of Knowledge - I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world

John Keats

#98. What then is good? The knowledge of things. What is evil? The lack of knowledge of things.

Seneca.

#99. Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Veronica Roth

#100. Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

Horace