Best Useless Knowledge Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The two things most universally desired are power and admiration. Ignorant men, as a rule, only achieve either by brutal means, involving the acquisition of physical mastery. Culture gives a man less harmful forms of power and more deserving ways of making himself admired.”

Culture Toxic Masculinity Useless Knowledge 1932

Book:The Will to Doubt

Source: The Will to Doubt

“A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.”

Fortitude Useless Knowledge 1932 Interpersonal Relations

Book:The Will to Doubt

Source: The Will to Doubt

“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.”

“There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.”

Knows Doors Useless Useless Knowledge

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”

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Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

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Author:Abu Bakr

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.”

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Author: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 of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.”

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Book:The Invention of Love

Source: The Invention of Love

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

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

Knows Knowledge Useless Useless Knowledge

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.”

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Author: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 you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.”

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Book:Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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 forgotten.”

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Author:Albert J. Nock

“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”

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Author:Albert J. Nock

“There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.”

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Author:C. E. M. Joad