Disinterested Quote by Albert J. Nock

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

— Thucydides

Knowledge is power, but knowledge without application is useless

— Anonymous

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

— Moses Finley

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

— Benjamin Carson

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

— Seneca the Younger

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Knowledge unused is worthless; only knowledge applied is power.”

— Tom Venuto

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

— Abu Bakr

“We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not…

— John Stuart Mill

“The issue is not indifference to established knowledge; it’s the emergence of a positive hostility to such knowledge. This is new in American culture,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

— Carlos Castaneda