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Knowledge Quotes by Albert J. Nock
- 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…
- Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
- Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind…
- The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist…
- Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless…
- The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only…
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