Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

James D. Watson

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

La Monte Young

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

William Shenstone

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Ray Bradbury

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

Amit Kalantri

Ibn Mas'ud said, "When 'Umar died nine-tenth of all knowledge vanished with him." The people were shocked and said, "How can this be when among us now are still many of the great companions?" Ibn Mas'ud replied,"I am not speaking of the knowledge of ...

Men Around The Messenger: The Companions Of The Prophet

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Fight Club

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

The Last Enchantment

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Le Roman de l'adolescent myope

Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Pearls are a Nuisance

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Jeffery Deaver

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Peter Mullan

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Paul Prudhomme

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

Padre Pio

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Lemony Snicket

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Dhani Harrison

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Jose Rizal