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  • Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

    Science   Reality   Facts  
    1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.
  • The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  • 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.

    School   Moss   Rolling  
  • Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

    Past   Men   Yield  
  • 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.

  • To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

    Men   Hands   Effort  
  • A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

    Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

  • Knowledge is love and light and vision.

    Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International
  • Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  • 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 (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”
  • Take what's useful, discard what is not.

  • The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

  • 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.

    Knowledge   Library   May  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.71, Penguin UK
  • We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.

    Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.669, Modern Library
  • 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 (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
  • Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

    Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
  • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

    Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.97
  • 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.

    Thinking   Errors   May  
  • I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  • A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

    Wisdom   Plato   Business  
    Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83
  • 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.

    School   Noble   Goes On  
  • 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 (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1078, Wordsworth Editions
  • In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

  • 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.

    Hands   Mind   Growth  
    Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.12, Princeton University Press
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