Useless Knowledge Quotes

• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Useless, Pleasure

  "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: 'Useless' Knowledge, 1935.

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

  Albert J. Nock

  Useless, Sound, Public Opinion

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• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  Abu Bakr

  Useless, Action, Martial Arts

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• It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

  Seneca the Younger

  Knowledge, Useless, Knows

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

  Dan Millman

  Tanks, Useless, Littles

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wise, Wisdom, Emotional

  "Distilled Wisdom". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145, 1964.

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doors, Useless, Knows

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Knowledge, Important, Age

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• 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.

  Albert J. Nock

  Culture, Useless, Body

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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

  Ivan Panin

  Men, Luxury, Doubt

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• We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

  Roger Scruton

  Education, Mean, Priorities

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• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Light, Shining

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.71, Grove Press

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