Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

F. H. Bradley

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

Frank Zappa

Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

Amit Kalantri

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

Anonymus

One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the horror of what w...

The Book of My Lives

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor...

Letters and Autobiographical Writings

No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions.

African

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.

Traditional

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.

Vietnamese

A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.

Father Crow and Other Poems

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

Bitter Blood

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

Justice is useful when money is useless.

The Republic

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Strange Angels

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Notes from Underground

A bartender is a Keeper of Secrets. Drunk, senseless, useless secrets. 

Sleepwalking is restercise