Quotes About Unused Knowledge

#1. Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#3. With knowledge there is no hope, ... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

John Steinbeck

#4. We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.

Anna Maxted

#5. It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

Harold Bloom

#6. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

L. Tom Perry

#7. In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Danny Silk

#8. The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.

Lewis Black

#9. We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

H.G.Wells

#10. Because they did not know that we'd loaded the bullets and put the gun in her hand,

John Green

#11. I've never seen a man who understands so little about women and yet is so led about by them.

Mark Lawrence

#12. When you come to God, you must come to Him in the posture - even the emotions - of a son, not that of a sinner.

Paul Silway

#13. The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

Henry Hazlitt

#14. He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off

Lev Grossman

#15. Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett