Knowledge is annoying

Knowledge is almost annoying...

— Karl Pilkington

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

— John Updike

“The end of learning, he said, is to “repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of…

— Leland Ryken

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

— Viktor Schauberger

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a…

— Otto Weininger

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

— Isaac Asimov

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

— Peter Singer

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge…

— Tupac Shakur

“In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Skills (learning) or lack of skills is all egoistic knowledge (ego based knowledge). Ego-free Knowledge is called (true) Knowledge [Gnan].”

— Dada Bhagwan

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe