--- title: "10 Knowledge Useful Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Knowledge Useful quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Knowledge Useful sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/robert-a-heinlein-209_abstract_abstract-knowledge-is-always-useful-soon_2882483.jpg" --- > [Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/abstract-knowledge-is-always-useful-sooner-or-later/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/robert-a-heinlein-209_abstract_abstract-knowledge-is-always-useful-soon_2882483.jpg) > [Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-paolini/change-itself-is-neither-good-nor-bad-but-knowledge-is-always-useful/) [Christopher Paolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-paolini/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/christopher-paolini-622_change_change-itself-is-neither-good-nor-bad-bu_1152294.png) > [Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-pfeffer/knowledge-is-only-useful-if-you-do-something-with-it/) [Jeffrey Pfeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-pfeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1c/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_funny_knowledge-is-only-useful-if-you-do-somet_766940.jpg) > [“Of course, all knowledge is useful. But not all knowledge is worth the cost.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-harper/of-course-all-knowledge-is-useful-but-not-all-knowledge-is-worth-the/) [Suzanne Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-harper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/suzanne-harper-30635_knowledge_of-course-all-knowledge-is-useful-but-no_1842436.jpg) > [There is no kind of knowledge which is useful to one and unuseful to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akash-rajoriya/there-is-no-kind-of-knowledge-which-is-useful-to-one-and-unuseful-to/) [Akash Rajoriya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akash-rajoriya/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/akash-rajoriya-45446_knowledge_there-is-no-kind-of-knowledge-which-is-u_1283167.jpg) > [“Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garth-nix/knowledge-is-always-useful-even-if-if-it-is-not-immediately-apparent/) [Garth Nix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garth-nix/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/garth-nix-2783_knowledge_knowledge-is-always-useful-even-if-if-it_2187563.png) > [General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-v-wedgwood/general-knowledge-may-have-to-be-slight-or-even-amateurish-knowledge/) [C. V. Wedgwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-v-wedgwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c83/c-v-wedgwood-25710_discouraging_general-knowledge-may-have-to-be-slight_197367.jpg) > [“information and knowledge is only useful and powerful if you implement it and ise, if you dont use it, it serve no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sanville-moses/information-and-knowledge-is-only-useful-and-powerful-if-you/) [Sanville Moses](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sanville-moses/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/sanville-moses-276147_data_information-and-knowledge-is-only-useful_1499405.jpg) > [No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-chesbrough/no-one-has-a-monopoly-on-knowledge-the-way-that-say-ibm-had-in-the/) [Henry Chesbrough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-chesbrough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/henry-chesbrough-68040_1960s_no-one-has-a-monopoly-on-knowledge-the-w_3074947.jpg) > [Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-pfeffer/advocates-of-knowledge-management-as-the-next-big-thing-have-advanced/) [Jeffrey Pfeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-pfeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_big-things_advocates-of-knowledge-management-as-the_1384851.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knowledge-useful/#itemlist", "name": "Knowledge Useful Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert A. 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