Useless Knowledge Quotes

It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder. ~ Blakney Francis

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ~ Bertrand Russell

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat. ~ Graham Greene

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. ~ Jim Hinckley

Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge, ~ Tony Reinke

Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all this garbage. ~ Rob Sheffield

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ~ Samuel Johnson

She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge. ~ Lauren Groff

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ~ Albert J. Nock

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order to feed this machine and prevent its breakdown. That's why our school systems have no interest in developing models that actually require and stimulate useful values in people, such as courage or imagination or inventiveness.
None of these are taught in our schools, on the contrary the system focuses on memorizing. Memorizing is a way of overloading the mind with mental baggage it doesn't really need. Besides being horribly dull and stiffening the effect of 20 years of abundant memorization training is modern man: an unimaginative creature stuffed with useless knowledge and unable to clean his mind of this information dirt: our school systems are purposely constructed to deliver mental automatons that are unable to think creatively. ~ Martijn Benders

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge. ~ Ivan Panin

There're eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds in a day, right? There're one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes in a day."
Her brow knitted. "Okay. I'll take your word for it."
"I'm right." I tapped my finger against my head. "A lot of useless knowledge up here.
Anyway, are you following me? There're one hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week.
Around eighty-seven hundred and then some hours in a year, and you know what?"
She smiled. "What?"
"I want to spend every second, every minute, every hour with you." Part of me
couldn't believe something that cheesy had come out of my mouth, but it was also so beauti fully true. "I want a year's worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade's worth of hours, so many that I can't add them up."
Her chest rose sharply as she stared at me, eyes widening.
I took one more step and then went down on one knee in front of her, in a towel.
Probably should have put some pants on. "Do you want that?" I asked.
Kat's eyes met mine, and the answer was immediate. "Yes. I want that. You know I want that."
"Good." My lips curved up. "So let's get married. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

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 is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. ~ Seneca The Younger

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

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. ~ Abu Bakr

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

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time. ~ William Carlos Williams

A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose-well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible. He picked up his pen again, and under the words "Not to be published" drew a second line, thicker and blacker than the first; then sighed, "What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness! ~ Aldous Huxley

Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology. ~ Lucio Russo

Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom! ~ Martin R. Lemieux

As one of the first creators on YouTube, I've been fortunate to sit in the front row, witnessing the remarkable evolution of digital media. The experiences and knowledge I've been afforded are invaluable, and I'm excited to take that skill set, together with Endemol Beyond, to build a reliable, reputable business. ~ Michelle Phan

In all worthy music, in fact, the chief point of interest is the music itself which speaks to us in its own language of sound and rhythm. A knowledge of form is but a means to an end: for the composer, that he may express himself clearly and convincingly, and for the listener, that he may readily receive the message set forth. ~ Walter Raymond Spalding

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Love has the power to hold the whole universe together. ~ Debasish Mridha

Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote. ~ Douglas Coupland

Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit. ~ Guru Nanak

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In the broader spiritual realities, no rites or rituals are necessary to know God. NONE. Any religion that insists you can come to intimate knowledge of the Divine by any means other than stillness, self-awareness, and unity with consciousness is deceptive. So-called holy texts are about religion, not necessarily about God. They are really owners manuals for faith traditions. I am not denouncing them altogether, as I love the Bible and have studied it reverently all my life. But I don't view the Bible as the inspired word OF God as much as the inspired word of men ABOUT God, as they perceive God through their often jaded, human perspectives. Again, I respect these so-called sacred writings. I would just like to see them read and placed in their proper, less idolatrous, place. ~ Carlton D. Pearson

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history.
It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered. ~ Stefan Molyneux

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself. ~ Alexander Pope

It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them. ~ L. Frank Baum

If you began with love, you will end with happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Beautiful building," Phoebe said. Sam nodded. "Classical Revival," he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. Maybe if she had gone to college she would have learned about building styles and understand what Classical Revival meant. They could have intelligent discussions about things like rooflines and columns. ~ Jennifer McMahon

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer. ~ Steven Hatfill

The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others. ~ Debasish Mridha

I ... asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands? ... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror ~ David Mitchell

It's said that one must sink all execrable things
Closed in a sepulchre, deep in oblivion,
And that by written works, evil brought back to life
Will taint the moral will of our posterity.
But vice is mothered not by Knowledge, not at all,
And Virtue's surely not the child of Ignorance. ~ Théodore-Agrippa D'Aubigné

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ~ Confucius

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything ~ Stewart Stafford

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics. ~ Immanuel Kant

Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Remember this: you must always be growing in the gospel and your knowledge of it. It is not Christianity 101, but Christianity from A to Z. You have not mastered the gospel, nor will you master it, but it will master you! ~ Paul Washer

I work not only for the gathering and assimilation of knowledge, but also to teach the fact that one can be brilliant without being arrogant, that great intellectual capacity brings great responsibility, that the quest for knowledge should never supplant the joy of learning, that one with great capacities must learn to be tolerant and appreciate those with lesser or different absolutes, ~ H. G. Bissinger

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said:

Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase
in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah. ~ Osman Nuri Topbaş

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Do not suppose, however, that those first principles [faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost] are the only ones to be learned; do not become stereotyped in your feelings, and think that you must always dwell upon them and proceed no further. If there be knowledge concerning the future; if there be knowledge concerning the present; if there be knowledge concerning ages that are past, any species of knowledge that would be beneficial to the mind of man, let us seek for it, and that which we cannot obtain by using the light which God has placed within us, by using our reasoning powers, by reading books, or by human wisdom alone, let us seek to a higher source - to that Being who is filled with knowledge. ~ Orson Pratt

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa
and as many books about it as you could read in a leisurely lifetime. Whoever writes a new one can afford a certain complacency in the knowledge that his is a new picture agreeing with no one else's, but likely to be haugthily disagreed with by all those who believed in some other Africa ... Being thus all things to all authors, it follows, I suppose, that Africa must be all things to all readers.
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home. ~ Beryl Markham

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works. ~ Carl Johan Calleman

Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight. ~ Thomas Watson

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. ~ Francis Bacon

Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does. ~ Russell L. Ackoff

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect. ~ E.L. Doctorow

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. ~ Al-Ghazali

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

The elderly are useless eaters. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! ~ J.K. Rowling

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me. ~ Philippe Petit

Your shadow touches mine and I know all I need to know about you. I know you have that same knowledge when they touch.

-Giovanni to Sasha. ~ Christine Feehan

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. ~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky