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“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.”

Happiness Wealth Knowledge Information Weight Confusion Confused Abundance Buried Quantity Singer Songwriters Money Can't Buy Happiness Too Much Information Information Overload Being Confused

Author:Tom Waits

“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Values Knowledge Increase Hopefully Quantity Sharing Knowledge

Author:Louis L'Amour

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.”

Happiness Wealth Money Knowledge Information Gun Weight Confusion Confused Abundance Buried Composer Quantity Monkeys Singer Songwriters Information Overload Being Confused Overabundance

Author:Tom Waits

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

Inspirational Mind Growth Quality Knowledge Learning Dignity Determine Quantity Personal Dignity Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Book:Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

“It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.”

Knows Seems Science Perfect Numbers Knowledge Objects Illusion Accounts Mere Species Bounds Abstract Quantity Demonstration Sophistry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.”

Knows Science Lines Knowledge Break Tree Arms Branches Dimensions Quantity Stem Angle Partition Continuance

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Believe May Littles Real Science Knowledge Dangerous Danger Valuable Genuine Quantity Adages Dangerous Things Little Knowledge Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.”

Source: Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd