Top 1200 Useless Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.

A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.

We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.

The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.' That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity