Facts Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Seneca the Younger

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

— Andrew Sullivan

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we…

— Gary Wolf

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

— Tom Stoppard

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

— Mary Parker Follett

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

— Thucydides

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

— Moses Finley

“Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than…

— Stefanie Weisman

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

— Ray Bradbury

“Knowledge grows, and simultaneously it becomes obsolete as reality changes. Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge. The discarding…

— Bo Hedberg