Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Unwind

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

War

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Joan Collins

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Philip Levine

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Mo Rocca

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Louis C. K.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

Guy Pearce

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Charles de Gaulle

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

Anthony Horowitz

Star in the sky is useless to the world, Star on the stage makes the difference to the world.

Amit Kalantri

Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.

Apol Lejano-Massebieau

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena where it is shared, where it is communicated. It's not that somebody shouldn't have specialized knowledge. The ability to dig a trench and lay a cable is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application

Becoming conscious and aware is a journey itself, and we all struggle in that journey we call life. Instead of judging one another, help each other, not by convincing them of your truth but through letting them think for themselves by spreading knowl...

Nynke Visser

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acqui...

Willis R. Whitney

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Hausfrau

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The Raw and the Cooked

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Henry Petroski