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
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this... →
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered... →
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can... →
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1... →
Yoshihiko Noda
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
James Northcote
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and... →
Jacqueline Novogratz