Useful Knowledge Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
— Charles Babbage
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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
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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
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
— Sam Houston
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never…
— Jane Austen
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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
Who Wrote These Useful Knowledge Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Useful Knowledge Quotes as follows: