Quotes of: Useless-knowledge Keyword

A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth more, for a right understanding, than a great thought,...

The Education of the Stoic

Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Want to know the common element for the entire group?... I'll tell you the answer: I'll tell you, 'cause I had that one. I had that question... Carbon. Carbon. In pencil lead, it's in the form of graphite and in coal, it's mixe...

Magnolia

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

French

Linda: [possessed] It's useless! Useless! In time it will come for him and then it will come for you!

The Evil Dead

Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.

Polish

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.

Another Faust

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

On the Nature of History : Essays about History and Dissidence

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

That Book: ...of Perfectly Useless Information

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

He who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs.

Japanese

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese

When you can't find peace within yourself, it's useless to seek it elsewhere.

French

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.

Another Faust

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

John Taylor Gatto

Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is ...

Life

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dio...

The Vampire Lestat

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in...

A Study in Scarlet

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him g...

A Study in Scarlet

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Sri Ramakrishna