There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
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.
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.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
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.
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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