Useless Knowledge Quotes
- Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. — Ivan Panin
- Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before… — Dan Millman
- 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… — Albert J. Nock
- Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. — Albert J. Nock
- There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. — C. E. M. Joad
- There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
- 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
- It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. — Seneca the Younger
- 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
- There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own — Cyril Joad
- 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… — Albert J Nock