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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
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
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego -- Albert Einstein
It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. -- Jim Hinckley
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. -- Albert J. Nock
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own. -- C. E. M. Joad
Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process. -- Sai Baba
Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth? -- Marco Pierre White
There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you. -- Benjamin Carson
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
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
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
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
Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion. -- Lincoln Steffens
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge. -- Michel de Montaigne
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. -- Roy Romer
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade. -- John Burnside
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. -- Arthur Miller
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. -- Ed Markey
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. -- Annie Besant
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. -- Samuel Butler
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library. -- Michelle Rodriguez
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -- Herbert Simon
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples. -- Edmund Phelps
Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -- Herbert A. Simon
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. -- Konrad Lorenz
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. -- Erica Jong
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. -- Geoff Mulgan
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. -- Fannie Farmer
The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment. -- Aaron Peirsol
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. -- Ben Stein
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true. -- James Surowiecki
The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces. -- John Burnham Schwartz
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. -- Dante Alighieri
The more certain our knowledge the less we know. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge -- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. -- Gene Wolfe
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. -- Will Durant
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based. -- George Lucas
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you. -- Karen Maitland
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge. -- Noam Chomsky
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. -- John B. S. Haldane
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. -- David Hume
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. -- Don DeLillo
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being. -- Natalie Goldberg
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. -- John Ruskin
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
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge. -- Lewis Wolpert
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger. -- George Eliot
We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart. -- Muriel Wace
Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. -- Shri Radhe Maa
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. -- Stephen Hawking
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less. -- Thomas Sowell
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? -- Thomas Carlyle
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity. -- Jean Genet
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. -- Leo Tolstoy

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