Knowledge Quote by John Stuart Mill

“When a society removes moral responsibility by belief that the acquisition of knowledge comes from an unknown and mysterious venue, it loses its ability…

— Al Stefanelli

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

— Jon Erickson

“Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.”

— Brent Weeks

“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again…

— Nicholas Copernicus

“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought”

— Robert Pirsig

A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society

— Juanita Kidd Stout

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what…

— Robert A. Nisbet

Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as…

— William Crookes

“Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends…

— Benjamin Hoff

“Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool; Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.”

— Anonymous

“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be…

— Thomas à Kempis