Pastoral Resources

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.