But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media which is our culture. Professors of humanities with all their leftist fantasies have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If a little knowledge is dangerous where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion but a blight bred in the cloudy damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

I've always wanted to be a spy and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I apologize for being obvious but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man or any man of such warm intelligence.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

If little else the brain is an educational toy.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.