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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. -- Terry Pratchett
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? -- Tom Clancy
Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance. -- Chris Hadfield
Bad Religion took a long time to develop into gold-record-status artists. Along the way we learned and applied our knowledge, and Atlantic helped us every step of the way, since 1993. -- Greg Graffin
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? -- Tom Clancy
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. -- Jane Campion
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work. -- Sara Zarr
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it. -- Tony Judt
It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block. -- John Niven
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. -- A. N. Wilson
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. -- James Altucher
Information is bad for knowledge. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Self knowledge is always bad news. -- John Barth
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful. -- Christopher Paolini
Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results. -- Zig Ziglar
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of some bad habits every day. -- Farshad Asl
Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. -- Tom Robbins
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. -- Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine. -- Jacqueline Kelly
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. -- J. I. Packer
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad "? but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. -- Richard P. Feynman
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. -- Cory Doctorow
A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final. -- Francis Bacon
Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst. -- Stefan Emunds
It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet. -- Gena Showalter
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does. -- Eckhart Tolle

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