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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. -- Sam Houston
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. -- Albert J. Nock
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. -- Albert J. Nock
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. -- Charles Babbage
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. -- Grenville Kleiser
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things. -- E. F. Schumacher
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. -- Jane Austen
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school. -- Ernest Shackleton
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths. -- Julian Simon
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food. -- Frederick E. Crane
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way. -- Henry Parry Liddon
Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge.... -- Wilford Woodruff
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune. -- Robert Blair
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth. -- Julian Simon
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. -- Tom Stoppard
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services. -- Henry Chesbrough
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. -- Albert J. Nock
Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful. -- Roger Housden
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. -- Richard Whately
Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful. -- Christopher Paolini
It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money. -- Jacques Pepin
I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful. -- Big Boi
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off. -- Nicky Gumbel
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. -- Herbie Hancock
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. -- Emma Bonino
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. -- Samuel Johnson
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. -- Leroy Hood
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. -- John Brunner
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. -- C. V. Wedgwood
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful. -- Aleksandar Hemon
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen

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