Useful Knowledge Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future… — Frederick E. Crane
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the… — Henry Chesbrough
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become… — L. Ron Hubbard
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling… — Ernest Shackleton
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material… — E F Schumacher
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… — Albert J. Nock
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… — Albert J. Nock
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect… — Julian Simon
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much… — Julian Simon
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Tom Stoppard
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate… — Robertson Davies
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… — Albert J. Nock
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never… — Jane Austen
Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of useful knowledge and learning, and stamps an indelible mark of… — Preston

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