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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. -- Albert J. Nock
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. -- Albert J. Nock
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. -- Seneca the Younger
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. -- Ivan Panin
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. -- C. E. M. Joad
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you. -- Benjamin Carson
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank. -- Dan Millman
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
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. -- Roger Scruton
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. -- Albert J. Nock
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 without understanding is useless. -- Thucydides
Books without the knowledge of life are useless. -- Samuel Johnson
No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry. -- Samuel Johnson
Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous. -- Confucius
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. -- Abu Bakr
It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. -- Jim Hinckley
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery. -- Margaret Deland
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise -- Beth Moore
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? -- Carlos Castaneda
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. -- John Locke
If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur. -- Samuel Johnson
Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever. -- David Jeremiah
...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing." -- Lianne Downey
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
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. -- Andre Dubus
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. -- Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. -- Owen Feltham
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand -- Oscar Wilde
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe -- Etienne Gilson
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test. -- Henry Ford
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. -- Daniel Defoe
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. -- Luc de Clapiers

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